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...made the sarong famous. "He'd sweep under the open windows where the executives met, listen in and pick up all the latest details." Lamour's old studio contact is long gone, but her co-stars in seven previous Road movies (including Road to Singapore, Rio and Zanzibar) remain. Some time next year, Bing Crosby, 71, Bob Hope, 72, and Lamour will reunite for their eighth cinematic trek, this one titled Road to Tomorrow. Crosby and Hope will portray two grandfathers who grow bored with life and set out for one last fling. And Lamour's role...
...Rio de Janeiro Correspondent Barry Hillenbrand, the reporting for this week's story in the World section on the conference of Third World foreign ministers in Lima began like a routine assignment and ended like an episode from a comic opera. On his way from Rio to the Peruvian capital early last week, Hillenbrand stopped off for a half-day in Buenos Aires. The city, he found, was alive with talk of a coup against the government of Isabel Perón. Connecting with a flight that arrived at midnight-"All flights seem to arrive in Lima at midnight...
...alves intimate, refused to discuss the scheme, but even government-controlled papers hastily denounced it. Since then, an anti-Communist slate has easily won control of the nation's 358-member journalists' union. Thirty of the 54 editorial staffers of the government-controlled daily Diário de Notícias have denounced the paper's Communist line, and 17 newsmen of the state television system have demanded the resignation of Correia Jesuino...
...government and its Communist friends have not taken this independence lightly. All 30 of the Diário de Notícias rebels have been suspended. Meanwhile, Gonçalves has tried to rally public opinion by condemning unfriendly publications as "those rags and those libertines." More ominous are reports that the government plans to cut the supply of newsprint to dissenting newspapers-and worse. "I think that there should be one morning newspaper and one afternoon newspaper," Correia Jesuino told TIME Correspondent Gavin Scott. "We can't afford to have so many newspapers...
Even aides of President Francisco Costa Gomes acknowledged privately that the Communist-leaning Gonçalves had been irredeemably discredited. In the course of a 2½-hour meeting at Belem Palace, Costa Gomes reportedly asked Socialist Leader Mário Soares for a six weeks' grace period to arrange Gonçalves' resignation and restore political parties to representation in the government. Soares rejected the proposal. Soon afterward, he was backed by 7,000 Socialists who marched on Belem Palace shouting "Vasco must resign...