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...umbrage at the red carpet treatment accorded Mangakis; ambassadors, after all, do not usually see political prisoners off. Charging that "some foreigners and their lackeys" had carried out "an unprecedented act of gangsterism," it abruptly declared Ambassador Limbourg persona non grata. Limbourg, as surprised as everyone else, suffered a mild heart attack. At week's end the West German Foreign Ministry agreed to recall Limbourg...
...heritage, are seemingly oblivious to their uncivilized behavior in automobiles. Not so their children. Asked by Vienna's mass-circulation Kurier to submit letters describing the driving habits of their fathers, several hundred schoolchildren, aged 9 to 14, handed down a nearly unanimous verdict: the Viennese male, normally mild-mannered, becomes a raging brute behind the wheel...
AGGRESSIVE FAST-TALKING would-be seductress Judy Maxwell (Barbra Streisand) sets out to steal absent-minded, mild-mannered musicologist Howard Bannister (Ryan O'Neal) from hysterical rotund fiancee Eunice Burns (Madeleine Kahn). Bannister is in San Francisco in hopes of winning a $20,000 grant to study the role of igneous rocks in primitive man's music. The rival for the grant, one Hugh Simon, is the villain of the piece, plagiarist and foreigner, with an accent as unequivocally Yugoslavian as Streisand's is New Yorkese. Complications breed complications, and descent into farce takes about all of five minutes...
Even before the U.S. Government doused cigarette commercials on television last year, sales of little cigars were lighting up. Put off by evidence that cigarettes cause cancer, heart disease and other ailments, some smokers began to switch several years ago to small, mild stogies...
That brings us to the New York Yankees, the erstwhile kings of baseball, now the reigning kings of boredom. New York has fallen on hard times, but it may stage a mild resurgence this year. The pitching is spotty, with only Mel Stottlemyre anything above average, the defense is hardly anything to write home about, but the offense, led by Bobby Murcer (the Yankees entry in the "superstar" category), Roy White and a gaggle of good young players could produce. But, alas, the Yankees are still dull, dull, dull...