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Helping Hand. Two years ago, however, Longo took up with a chic party member who was not so easily palmed off-young, slender Bruna Conti. Soon after she bore him a child, Bruna began insisting that Longo marry her. Last fall the nearby Communist-dominated little Republic of San Marino, which is always ready to give Italy's Reds a helping hand, announced that it had granted Luigi Longo a divorce...
Fast & Loose. Though Cousy (rhymes with woozy) stands a slender 6 ft. 1 in., he is a small man among the outsize players of professional basketball. Cousy makes up for his lack of size with cat-quick reflexes and spur-of-the-moment shots that are almost impossible to defend against. Lean and loose, he goes through muscular gyrations that would awe a contortionist. He is currently among the N.B.A.'s top scorers, the league leader in assists, and an agile defender against men half a foot taller...
...arrived in Lebanon, he bore his father's sympathy to the bereaved family and an offer of $79,000 to the widow so that she might finance the mansion her husband had begun. Then Emir Sultan's eye lighted upon 22-year-old Alia Solh. She was slender and bright, with dark eyes that pierced like a Bedouin's when she was talking and crinkled when she smiled. She was also the big girl on campus at the American University of Beirut, where she studied political science and practiced it by leading demonstrations for women...
...slender girl of 18 when she first walked onto the stage of Oslo's National Theater to make her operatic debut in d'Albert's Tiefland. She had only a small voice, but critics agreed that its quality was pleasing and that she was "very musical.'' After that she made rapid strides, and the world beyond Oslo inevitably heard of Kirsten Flagstad. Last week, 40 years to the day after her debut and after one of the great operatic careers of the 20th century. Soprano Flagstad sang goodby on the same stage...
...hours last week, Vice President Richard Nixon nibbled cashew nuts and sipped tangerine juice with India's Jawaharlal Nehru. The two men, one forthright and husky, the other complex and slender, came away laughing and joking, unexpectedly impressed with each other. Nixon liked Nehru, and allowed that he now had "a much more rounded view" of India's policies. The Indians liked Nixon; Indian newspapers hailed his "free and frank manner...