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Bits of Hearsay. The mini-panic was caused by a combination of wild rumor and hard economic fact. European speculators have been trading bits of unfounded hearsay that the Italian central bank was secretly selling some of its dollars for gold on the free market and that the U.S. Congress was somehow planning to double the price of gold. More sensible investors were troubled by the huge U.S. budget deficit that Nixon disclosed two weeks ago-which they feared would lead to further dollar-weakening American inflation-and by the gap between Europe's relatively high interest rates...
...idle boast. On Twig-gy's 98-lb. frame Justin built a mini-conglomerate. Besides Twiggy Good Times Productions, formed last October, there is an umbrella organization known as Twiggy Enterprises. Though Justin and Twiggy are now out of the fashion business, their organizations have in the past rented her name to Twiggy dolls ($1,000,000 profit in royalties) and Twiggy clothes ($300,000), and to Yardley of London cosmetics (around $1,000,000 over five years) for, among other things, eyeliners called "Twiggy Stix." "Deals, deals, deals," says Justin. "We do things as we get interested. That...
Peter Graves, of Mission: Impossible, is St. Luke. Sometime MGM musical Star Jane Powell is Pontius Pilate's wife. Actor Harve Presnell, his 6 ft. 4 in. frame draped with a mini-toga, is a troubled centurion. And there, amid crosses, a sepulcher, live olive trees and fake grass on Stage 4 in NBC's Burbank studio, is the real superstar of the $150,000 Easter special, waiting for the 40-minute semi-rock "cantata" to conclude. At a signal from the producer, the tape rolls. Oral Roberts beams a broad, benign smile into the camera...
...show that was taped for airing this week features a sketch with ex-Footballer Jim Brown, now a movie actor. Geraldine, dressed up as a "Chicken Delicious" delivery girl in a micro-mini and lace-up boots, delivers an order to Brown. After announcing the product-"No fancy ribbons on our meat; what you see is what you eat"-she tries to persuade Brown to find work in the movies for her boy friend Killer, never visible on the stage but always present in her thoughts. "What is he doing?" Brown asks. "He don' do nuthin'," Geraldine replies...
...that appeared on home screens was a shot of Washington loping into the end zone. Like Lombardi, though, Verna wins more than he loses. In a similar situation in another 49ers game, Verna was so confident that Brodie would throw to Washington that he sent one of his portable "mini" cameras 50 yds. downfield from the line of scrimmage. Sure enough, Washington caught a Brodie pass only a few feet from the sideline camera and raced into the end zone for a touchdown; Verna's viewers saw it all in a stunning instant-replay closeup. It is in such...