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...married Edward Judson, a sometime auto salesman who at once saw what was wrong: her real appeal was not Latin but all-American. After lightening her hair, he introduced her to Harry Cohn, the shrewd, tyrannical head of Columbia Pictures, who substituted her Irish mother's surname, with a slight variation, and inserted young Hayworth into her first important picture, Howard Hawks' Only Angels Have Wings...
Although he had seen no one, Connaughton sensed they had been watched entering and leaving his apartment building. He had not seen, in the entryway four doors up the street, the slight man in the dark blue coat and the broad- brimmed...
...despite the violence and legal challenges to Botha's policies, the results of this week's parliamentary elections were not in serious doubt. The National Party, which has ruled the country since 1948, was expected to win again, and perhaps even register a slight increase in its 116-seat majority in the 166-member House of Assembly. The opposition Progressive Federal Party, in league with the small New Republic Party, could not hope to add more than a handful of seats to its present 30. P.F.P. Leader Colin Eglin said he saw "the emergence among upwardly mobile city Afrikaners...
...resisted a demand by the radicals that he sever ties with Egypt. ; But he accepted their view that if an international peace conference ever held, the P.L.O. should have its own representatives and not simply be part of another Arab delegation. That decision reduced to an absolute zero whatever slight chance existed of progress toward peace in the immediate future...
...killed, they declared, if the Reagan Administration's "interventionist policy" continues. The guerrillas claimed to have killed or wounded 600 Salvadorans, including the brigade's commander, Colonel Gilberto Rubio. In truth, the number of dead and wounded was probably no more than 130, and Rubio had escaped with a slight injury to his hand...