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...years, Brazil will pay from $4 billion to $8 billion for a "full cycle" nuclear complex, giving it all the facilities needed to assemble an atomic power industry completely independent of foreign supplies. The package includes up to eight nuclear power reactors, a uranium enrichment plant, a fuel-rod fabrication plant and a fuel-reprocessing facility...
...what count, but most of his purchases become gifts. His U.S. agent has received a Rolls-Royce, his secretary a $2,300 raccoon coat. His manager got an $80,000 yacht and a $10,000 Faberge clock. Elton sent a Rembrandt etching of The Adoration of the Shepherds to Rod Stewart's 30th birthday party...
...Died. Rod Serling, 50, television and motion-picture writer and creator of the supernaturally spooky series Twilight Zone; of a heart attack; in Rochester, N.Y. After a grueling apprenticeship as a freelance scriptwriter, Serling went on to write Patterns, Requiem for a Heavyweight and other major television plays, earning six Emmy awards, more than any other writer...
...Most baffling of all is his sex life," concluded Actor Rod Steiger after looking into the life and lines of Comedian W.C. Fields. "What did he really think about women? There are no good clues." Steiger stars in the film W.C. Fields and Me with Valerie Perrine, who portrays the former movie extra who lived with Fields for many years. He has studied for his role by watching old Fields movies at home and going to bed at night with the comedian's recorded voice playing through his earphones. "There are some remarkable similarities in our lives," says...
...Marvin Kalb, Rod MacLeish and other pundits were there, stoically abandoning the Georgetown dinner table and families for duty and the whiff of uncoiling power. For two crisis days, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had been in the Midwest, marinating in the heartland legend of Harry Truman. No better preparation for the moment of action. He had visited Bess Truman in the old family home in Independence, Mo., and heard a Truman neighbor shout: "Give 'em hell, Henry!" On the big crisis night, Kissinger, back in his Washington office, paced, ordering, listening, waiting. He flashed the V sign...