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Spending tax money for presidential retreats is nothing new-nor is it necessarily wrong. It is an ungenerous country that cannot let its President relax in comfort and safety. F.D.R., for instance, had a retreat called Shangri-La built in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains with $15,000 from the White House budget and with thousands of dollars more that were hidden in various departmental budgets. But that was public property and is now better known as Camp David. Other Presidents have had additions made to their private homes. Until the Nixon Administration, those outlays were made by the Defense...
Costa Rica has the potential of becoming a kind of financial Shangri-La for Vesco, and he has taken pains to win over some of the country's most powerful politicians. According to the SEC, one of the I.O.S. funds, IIT, has made an unsecured loan of $2,150,000 to Sociedad Agricola y Industrial San Cristobal, a firm founded and still partly owned by Costa Rican President José ("Don Pepe") Figueres. Says Figueres: "Vesco's investments here are very secure and creative. I can't understand the fuss." I.O.S.'s Fund of Funds allegedly...
...charming young man who drags her off to unsanitary Spain. There she gets fever, makes it back to a London hotel, descends into darkness for some weeks. When she awakes-hair no longer dyed, all her shape gone-she looks like a 140-year-old woman just escaped from Shangri...
...original, Hero Hugh Conway (Peter Finch) is a sort of nonpartisan lobbyist for peace who is persuaded to abandon his political pursuits in the outside world and become the Grand Kleagle of Shangri-La. There he will receive the victims of international holocaust with warmth and tolerance. That the world will be consumed by greed and violence seems an odd notion for such a soggy fantasy to be advancing; that the solution to the problem is, forget it, fix it later, is not. What does it matter if the world blows up, after all, if we have the happy valley...
...cast is large and largely helpless. Finch, a professional to the quick, has the decency not to look embarrassed, even when singing knock-kneed Bacharach-David soliloquies with lines like "Have I found Shangri-La/ Or has Shangri-La found me?" Liv Ullmann, practically impacted in makeup, smiles bravely; and there is a peppy song-and-dance number, kind of a Donald O'Connor comic turn, by Bobby Van, who is most engaging as a show-biz ham. Sally Kellerman plays a neurotic Newsweek correspondent. Also on hand are John Gielgud, George Kennedy, Michael York, Olivia Hussey, James Shigeta...