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...Peron's archfoe), Alejandro Lanusse. Peronistas have also chartered a DC-8 from Alitalia to fly their leader home. Aboard will be his third wife Isabelita, 41, several aides, household servants and numerous bodyguards, but not Eva, his second wife, who died in 1952 and is considered a saint by Argentina's descamisados, or shirtless ones. Her embalmed body, now lodged in a crystal-topped silver coffin, rests in a monastery near Madrid. It will probably follow later, provided Peron can find a burial place that would be safe from the devout depredations of Evita cultists or the angry assaults...
North by Northwest. Foreign agents chase Cary Grant and Eva Marie Saint up the face of Mt. Rushmore in this Hitchcock thriller, CH. 5. 11:30 p.m. Color...
...version of Jonathan. The paperback rights have been sold to Avon for a cool $1.1 million?another record. People are beginning to compare Jonathan to Saint-Exupery's The Little Prince and Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet (favorably or not, according to taste) as a book likely to stay around forever. Says Bach, who does not exactly take Jonathan's commercial success with clench-jawed seriousness: "The way I figure, just by April 1975, the whole earth will be covered about two feet deep in copies of Jonathan L. Seagull." The question that itches away at all but the most...
Passion of Joan of Are. Carl Dreyer's examination of the trial and execution of Saint Joan is the most effective expression of religious suffering and faith on film...
Kolbe was put in a starvation cell with nine others, then finally dispatched on Aug. 14, 1941 with an injection of phenol. Just a year ago, in St. Peter's Basilica in Rome, Pope Paul VI had declared him "Blessed," the most important single step in creating a saint. Last week's celebration in Poland marked the first anniversary of Kolbe's beatification, and the man he had saved -bent, white-haired Franciszek Gajowniczek, 69-was among the first to speak. "I want to express my thanks," he said haltingly, "for the gift of life...