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...been briefing embassy staffers on the situation. Rumors that the waves can cause leukemia, sterility in males or birth defects are circulating around the embassy. But morale remains good, nobody has yet requested a transfer, and some employees even manage weak jokes about the affair ("You're looking radiant today, dear"). "No one's mad at Stoessel," explains one diplomat in Moscow. "The resentment is directed against top management in Washington for not leveling with...
...championship, Dorothy Hamill is training again. She has been up since 5 a.m., on the ice at Twin Rinks since dawn. First she practiced school figures, tracing and retracing circular designs, skating backward and forward in perfect circles. Now it is nearly noon. Sweating and struggling to maintain her radiant smile, Dorothy, 19, is skating her freestyle program. As she swirls over the ice, leaping and spinning at presto pace, Twin Rinks Pro Peter Burrows shouts instructions. "Push it, give it more extension! Fly into it!" He shuts off the music. Dorothy bends over, gulping air. "O.K., "says Burrows...
...array of African prints the Kuumba singers rocked and swayed, clapped and sang until Memorial Church seemed to move with their rhythm. With shining faces and full voices the choir dramatically presented its theme, "The Light of Unity." The Memorial Church altar, usually an inconspicuous backdrop, complemented the singers' radiant stage presence; it almost seemed to draw out their contagious rhythm and spirit...
...Schlesinger's home in Arlington, Va., a post-firing wake turned into an impromptu party. Army Secretary Martin Hoffmann?who was a Princeton roommate of his new boss, Rumsfeld ?dropped by. So did Colby and his wife, who seemed radiant at the prospect that her husband would soon be out of the harsh spotlight. General Vernon Walters, deputy director of the CIA, arrived with a box of chocolates and a battery-operated car for the youngest of Schlesinger's eight children. Schlesinger's wife Rachel cooked a 22-lb. turkey. Before carving it, Schlesinger asked: "Where do I apply...
Holding tight to Husband Carlo Ponti, 61, Sophia Loren looked radiant and unruffled as she trooped about the U.S. promoting her latest film, Poopsie and Company. Can it be that the rumors about the Pontis' marriage are wrong? "I never snap at Carlo because he is always right" was all the serene Sophia would venture. As lines like that indicate, Sophia is not the world's foremost feminist. When the suggestion came up that the actress is regarded as a sex symbol, she answered: "I am a woman, mother and wife. If that means...