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...Betancourt's A.D. Party, is a better administrator. He sees every minister at least once a week privately in his office, presides at a regular weekly full-dress Cabinet meeting. He pays careful attention to Venezuela's sensitive military. And he still finds time for the public ribbon-snipping that Betancourt found so useful. Last month, on a trip to Maracaibo, Leoni dedicated a new teachers col lege, the first section of a 1,000-home housing project, a new tumor-study center at Zulia University Hospital, and a new radio-TV relay station-all in only...
...Club show in West Barnstable, Mass., astride her pony Macaroni, Caroline Kennedy, 6, stuck a feather in her cap by winning a sixth-place ribbon in a class of twelve, most of them teenagers. Then her mother, Jacqueline Kennedy, went to town-Manhattan, where she celebrated her 35th birthday by buying a dandy 15-room, $200,000 co-op at the corner of 85th Street and Fifth Avenue, overlooking the Central Park Reservoir. City officials promise tourist buses will mind the music and step lively when they drive past Jackie's new home; and the whole arrangement couldn...
...Kinloch, head of a largely paper outfit called the Independent Community Improvement Association, turned up to picket a 125th Street cafeteria to protest "the lack of a black face behind the counter." Suddenly the Rev. Nelson Dukes turned up to "mediate" in his capacity as head of the Blue Ribbon Organization for Equal Opportunity Now. The pickets shouted "Uncle Tom" at Dukes, and Kinloch complained, "This is my demonstration and my pickets...
...coast from San Luis Obispo to Monterey. Most spectacular is the 102-mile stretch from William Randolph Hearst's San Simeon estate through the Big Sur country to Carmel: with bare, steep cliffs on one side and a dizzying drop to the sea on the other, the narrow ribbon loops and spirals like a drunk. Subject to landslides and often shrouded in fog, it is closed at the first hint of rain, infrequently traveled, perilous and lonely, yet exhilarating as a first trip to Chartres...
SPAIN. The fair's blue-ribbon pavilion puts on a five-star show of art and culture: in the gallery, Goya's great majas and paintings by El Greco, Velasquez, Picasso and Miro; in the breezy interior terraces, sculpture and murals by modern abstractionists; in the Market Plaza, native-costumed folk dancers...