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...starred in the critically acclaimed movie Isabel, is getting a crack at the coveted part. In London for the filming of the latest version of Anne of the Thousand Days, Genevieve won generous praise from her leading man, Richard Burton. "She seems to me like a very pert tart-in the proper sense," he said. "I have no doubt she will steal all the notices." King Richard also indicated that playing Henry VIII might be the capstone of his movie career, which should cheer those who think his talents are wasted in films. "Much of acting is tedium...
...directed a project that designed the "PERT COST" management system for the Defense Department. The project was originally intended for use on the Polaris program, but since then the "PERT COST" system has become the pentagon's standard management tool...
...this feeling is genuine at Hickory Hill and it runs close beneath the surface. Ethel's constant motion provides her own defense against misery. It is painful for her to sit still for any length of time, her hands idle, her thoughts closing in on her. Then her pert features droop, reflecting the ravages of sorrow...
Ambush in the Clubhouse. Diane Crump, 20, a pert strawberry blonde who made the first breakthrough on Feb. 7 at Hialeah, whipped home a winner her sixth time out of the gate. "A horse," she explains, "doesn't know whether the rider on his back wears a dress or pants away from the track." Tuesdee Testa, 27, the wife of a stable foreman and the mother of a two-year-old daughter, won at Santa Anita in her second race. She has also been initiated into the perils of her new trade: at Aqueduct two weeks ago, Jockey Willie...
...over the guard rails with one twitch of her mighty hips. As her bumpy, bruised knuckles attest, she can be equally menacing with an uppercut ("I can't keep a long nail," she says). She takes her lumps too, most often from a gang of Braves led by pert Marge Laszlo, a nine-year Derby veteran who has had plastic surgery to remove the scars from a twice-broken nose...