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...distant from Moscow as from Washington. Many foreign observers believe Saraiva de Carvalho is essentially an opportunist who might even join with military moderates to topple Gonçalves and the Communists. The one certain thing is his disdain for politicians. Returning to Lisbon last week after a nine-day visit to Cuba-where he participated enthusiastically in the anniversary celebrations of Fidel Castro's revolution-he announced at the airport that last April's elections, which gave the Socialists a plurality, were irrelevant. Said he: "The dynamic of the revolution is what counts...
...their contour-fitted couches for several minutes until flotation balloons could right the capsule. But when they finally climbed out of the Apollo 45 minutes later, after it had been hoisted aboard the New Orleans, the astronauts appeared no more wan and weary than might be expected after a nine-day mission. They went through the traditional welcoming ceremonies, addressed the world from the carrier deck and took the obligatory call from the President...
...were at least temporarily cooled, if not finally resolved. On the brink of default, New York City, with some help from the state and major banks, found a device to cover $792 million in short-term notes that were due. And thousands of city and state doctors ended a nine-day slowdown protesting the runaway cost of malpractice insurance...
...able to jog around in a beat-up pair of sneakers once owned by Basketball Star Julius Erving? $201. These and other market values were set at what one TV critic described as "an upper-middle-class version of Let's Make a Deal," a nine-day fund-raising auction held onscreen by New York's public television station WNET. While some 500 celebrities acted as auctioneers, WNET viewers phoned in bids on donated goods and services ranging from Warren Beatty's working script for Shampoo ($250) to a night at the opera with Actor Tony Randall...
...grind better than Tom Ferguson. Last year he drove 80,000 miles in his 1973 Ford camper to compete in 112 rodeos from Florida to Alberta. In a dizzying week recently, he made three 800-mile round trips to appear in a pair of rodeos in Utah and a nine-day competition in Cheyenne. "If there's a choice between staying one place and going," explains the tireless Ferguson, "I'd rather keep going...