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...plaster caricature of an imaginary middle-class know-nothing called Ratapoil. Next highest was $59,591 for a life-size plas ter bust executed around 1855 of Dau mier himself, complete down to the wrinkles and warts. Bidding for the 14 drawings was lively enough to bring prices up to $17,346 for a single one. Buyers were mostly private European collectors, who seem to have recaptured some of the enthusiasm of Balzac. To tal take: a staggering...
There was a pin in the 190 match, with Dave Higgins of Wigglesworth beating Don Mier of Holworthy. The heavyweight match was won by Charles Poster of Hollis, 4-3 over Lionel Kaplan of Greenough...
...premier. According to high government officials, there is unanimous agreement, at least within the Cabinet, that Franco's powers should be divided so that his death will not paralyze the regime. But there is no agreement yet, nor any indication from Franco, on when or how the pre mier should be chosen. The liberals in Franco's Cabinet favor direct popular election, would like to see the premier removed entirely from Franco's control, empowered to choose his own Cabinet and held responsible only to an enlarged and more representative Cortes. The old guard, led by Alonso...
...Geneva at midnight (and so rapidly that the F.L.N. leaders left their baggage behind), the Boeing flew at maximum altitude along a route (Milan, Barcelona, Madrid) that avoided all French territory and, four hours later, put down at the U.S. Air Force Base at Nouasseur, Morocco, where F.L.N. Pre mier Benyoussef Benkhedda and a clutch of Moroccan officials sipped Coca-Cola -courtesy of the base commander - while they waited...
...scandal broke last fall when Pre mier Josef Cyrankiewicz, Politburo Member Edward Ochab and other top functionaries suddenly got a rash of Rabelaisian letters that mingled demands for greater intellectual freedom with obscene personal denunciations. Most of the letters, many of which were mimeographed, were mailed from the same Warsaw letter box, and police soon identified the sender: Novelist Jerzy Kornacki, 53, a protégé of the late Polish President, Boleslaw Bierut, and author of several proletarian novels (the best known: Hauling the Brick Carts). He is also an active member of Warsaw's Crooked Circle Club...