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...cost it $388 million in profits. GTE countersued, saying the losses were due to mismanagement and that HSN's press release complaining about GTE's phone service amounted to libel. HSN, arguing that the suit and countersuit should have been tried separately, plans to appeal. Says general counsel Nando DiFilippo: "We are confident that HSN will prevail...
...French cops know something Doyle does not. They are aware that he has been set up, that the French and American police forces are using him as a decoy to flush out Charnier (Fer nando Rey), the connection. The plan gets messy, however, when Charnier and his people sap Doyle in the street and drag him off to a seedy hotel, where for three long weeks they shoot him full of dope...
When Castiella left, there was hardly time for an aide to wipe out the ashtrays and for Rusk to glance swiftly at an other position paper before the arrival of the next foreign minister, Peru's Fer nando Schwalb Lopez. With Schwalb, Rusk talked economics and the Alliance for Progress. An hour later, with Ire land's Frank Aiken, the subject was the Congo. With Brazil's Joao Augusto de Aranjo Castro, the proposal for an atom-free zone in Latin America came up. Rusk said the U.S. would accept such an arrangement if it included Cuba...
...good book on mountain climbing can give almost any non-climber an attack of armchair vertigo. In The Ascent of Nando. Devi Mountain-Climber Tilman dizzied many a reader with his account of his climb, in 1936, to the summit of India's Nanda Devi (25,660 ft.), the highest mountain ever scaled by man. Last week, while Mountaineer Tilman was on his way to try another climb of Mt. Everest, he dizzied U. S. readers again, in a book that told of his slides, falls and narrow escapes in the mountains of equatorial Africa...