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...Israeli side, things also seemed fairly familiar to Marlin Levin, our Jerusalem stringer, who has been through every previous Arab-Jewish crisis. A U.S. newspaperman from Harrisburg, Pa., he went to the Holy Land on his honeymoon in 1947, stayed on to cover the war of independence, and has been there ever since. When the current clash developed, he was joined by Rome Bureau Chief Israel Shenker and Madrid Bureau Chief Peter Forbath...
...Chasing Marlin. Evidence of the Duke's selling success is his $175,000 house that sprawls behind a seven-foot wall at Newport Beach. Amidst the semitropical garden setting are eleven rooms, seven baths and a projection studio. Inevitably, there is a kidney-shaped pool, and also a playroom for his three latest children, aged 18 months to ten years, by present wife Pilar Pallette, 38, a Peruvian-born actress-model. He has had two previous wives (both also Latin American), four other children and twelve grandchildren...
...favorite family rendezvous is the Wild Goose II, Wayne's 130-ft. converted Navy minesweeper. The Goose is a substitute for riding, which he has had to give up on doctor's orders, except while filming. He still goes after marlin off Baja California, hunts deer in the Sierras. His other prey and preoccupation is Communist expansion. He was a prime mover of the old anti-left Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American I deals. Today, his cause is Viet Nam. "Once you go over there," he says, "you won't be middle...
...Panama's Pinas Bay, where, starting in 1963, he spent some $2,000,000 to turn an isolated patch of Pacific coastline into the handsome Club de Pesca de Panama, which, with its own amphibious plane service and a 15-boat fleet, opened the world's greatest marlin grounds to thousands of delighted anglers; of a heart attack...
...zest-American was obviously trying to regain the image of its halcyon days. Back in the '50s, then-President George Romney captured most of the U.S. market for compacts with his hoots at larger models as "gas-guzzling dinosaurs." Though American followed along with other models (Ambassador, Marlin) when car buyers' taste returned to the larger size, and even stretched the length and breadth of some Ramblers, its share of U.S. auto sales steadily slipped, from 6.4% in 1960 to a mere 3.2% last year. In fiscal 1966, A.M.C. lost $12.6 million, and last week Chapin...