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...Much Ado, Zeffirelli decided to keep the setting in Sicily's Messina but to update and garlic up the performance with farcical sight gags, snatches of Puccini, and Italian-accented iambics. Don John turns up with a twitch, Bene dick (Robert Stephens) in sunglasses and Don Pedro (Albert Finney) dangles his cigar as if he were a successful Mafia leader...
...Pedro Beltrán, Peru's Prime Minister from...
Belaunde inherited a country that for all its troubles, was beginning to show some economic strength. Under the sound, hard-money policies of Prado's Premier Pedro Beltran, policies that the military junta had the sense to continue, Peru's foreign reserves had climbed from almost nothing in 1959 to $106 million by 1963, old industries like iron and copper mining were expanding, new industries like fish meal were growing, and the sol had become one of Latin America's stronger currencies. Then here came Belaunde, inexperienced in government, unschooled in banking or economics. He came with...
...solid contender in production-class races last year. Shelby spent 1,000 hours preparing for the race, figuring gear and axle ratios, tuning engines, using computers to help adjust the suspension to the track conditions at Florida's Daytona International Speedway. In the time trials, Mexico's Pedro Rodriguez won the pole position by clocking 113.7 m.p.h. in his V12 Ferrari prototype, and Shelby decided he needed a little strategy too. His plan: turn California's Dan Gurney loose in a Lotus-Ford sprint car as a "rabbit" to lure the Ferraris into a car-killing speed...
...prosecutor asked the jury to consider the six known factors in the Collins case: a blonde white woman, a ponytail hairdo, a bearded man, a Negro man, a yellow car, an interracial couple. Then he suggested probability factors ranging from 1-to-4 odds that a girl in San Pedro would be blonde to 1-to-1,000 odds that the couple would be Negro-white. Multiplied together, the factors produced odds of 1 to 12 million that the Collinses could have been duplicated in San Pedro on the morning of the crime...