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...plans to push Puerto Rico out of its halfway house is Governor Roberto Sanchez Vilella, a long time protégé of the legendary Luis Munoz Marin, who retired as chief executive in January 1965. A quiet, pipe-smoking administrator, Sanchez last week sent to his legislature no fewer than 34 pro osals, the first part of a dynamic and demanding 85-point program designed to reorient Bootstrap to the island's new problems...
...typical, too, of Rubinstein. There was a concert to be played in Boston, so he packed his suitcases, not forgetting a shoe bag crammed with the good-luck charms that his four children have given him over the years?baby shoes, a turquoise marble, a set of jacks, a pipe-cleaner doll, an acorn, a crumbled plaster angel. He put on his fur-lined blue suede shoes and his long navy blue overcoat with the wide Persian lamb lapels, cocked his black beaver fedora rakishly over one eye, and headed for the airport...
From Soviet Russia to Sumatra and across the broad Pacific to South America, Japanese businessmen smilingly signed agreements last week that will guarantee them industrial raw materials for years to come. To the Russians, the Japanese pledged $200 million in pipe and liquefication equipment with which to develop the Okha natural-gas fields of Soviet-held Sakhalin island: in return, 7,000,000 cu. ft. per year of Sakhalin gas will be shipped to Japan. In Sumatra, Japanese oilmen promised to invest $15 million to carry on offshore oilfield drilling; Indonesia will keep 39% of the oil produced...
...fact that Pennel is able to compete at all is amazing. His back has hurt him ever since he was a boy, vaulting over garbage cans with a pipe from a TV antenna. "Sometimes it was so bad that he could not straighten up in the morning," remembers his mother, who tried to help with massages. Doctors at first thought he had just a muscular ailment, so Pennel ignored the pain, went on to set an outdoor record...
Married to a pipe-smoking, cameratoting American (Michael Craig), Claudia returns home after many years to witness the unveiling of a memorial to her late father, a scientist who died at Auschwitz. He was denounced to the Nazis, Claudia believes, by her mother (Marie Bell), who has since remarried and gone mad. Claudia's brother, played with a nice sense of wasting vitality by Jean Sorel, is less interested in vengeance than in incest, about which he has written an autobiographical novel. Since the family closets are already bursting with scandalous secrets, Claudia begs him to destroy the book...