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...invited by Mao Tse-tung's government to lead a delegation of American women on a tour of Chi na. Although MacLaine was photo graphed in a bell-bottomed Mao outfit, her group could hardly be called rad ical chic. Among others it included a Puerto Rican, a Navajo, a black civil rights worker from Mississippi, a white George Wallace supporter from Texas, a Republican, a psychologist and a 12-year-old girl. There was also a four-woman camera crew who filmed a rec ord of the trip to produce a 74-minute documentary entitled The Other Half...
Henry Gross: Plug Me Into Some thing (A &M). An alumnus of the Sha Na Nas, Gross gathers a few of his friends including Terry Cashman, Tom my West and even his pet Irish setter for a high-voltage round of rural rock...
Lucky Shots. As his confessions reveal, Reisman was never quite comfortable on the tournament circuit. The lifelong con man preferred to hustle-to persuade naïfs that he was past his prime, that in a $100 game he could no longer give away 15 points and still win. Reisman's professional reputation stopped growing years ago, but in the gamblers' world he remains a legend-the equal of Minnesota Fats and Bobby Riggs...
...Americans, others got wind of the rich discovery. One of them was Beth Mugo, Kenyatta's niece and unofficial lady in waiting to his vivacious wife, Mama Ngina; another was a wealthy Greek resident of Kenya, George Criticos, a friend of the President's and Mama Ngi-na's partner in running the Kenya Trade Development Corp. Saul and Miller charge that Beth Mugo and Criticos encouraged other leading Kenyans, including Mama Ngina, to demand a bigger share of the take. The two Americans agreed to let the Kenyans' share go up to 72%. Still...
There were other welcome surprises during the week. The righting between invading Turks and Greek Cypriots that had engulfed the tiny Mediterranean is land in a bloodletting was halted in a shaky cease-fire enforced by United Na tions troops. The chance of war between Turkey and Greece - both NATO allies - diminished, though it remained a worrisome possibility. The Soviet Union resisted the temptation to make political capital from the Turkish-Greek confrontation, thus affirming the spirit of detente with the U.S. And the other NATO nations fully consulted among themselves and acted in concert to dampen the conflict...