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...Communist cell in Leghorn. Her public career began at a Communist convention in Milan in 1948 when she walked on to the stage wearing red stockings, red jersey, a red ribbon in her hair, presented Communist Boss Togliatti with a bunch of red roses. The same year, sloe-eyed Laura stood for Parliament, won her seat by a sweeping majority. The offending speech was made during that election.. The long period elapsing before last week's trial was caused by delay in the Chamber of Deputies which had to waive Laura's parliamentary immunity before she could...
Beverly Baker, 20, a pert, sloe-eyed redhead from Santa Monica, is less singleminded. "I hate the grind of practicing. I don't like living out of a suitcase. In fact, I don't care much for traveling. I like home." But on the court Beverly is all business, takes quiet pride in the fact that she is the only player in big-time tennis who can shift hands for each shot: "I play a gambling game, looking for quick winners. Why drag a match out for two hours if you can get it over with...
...divorce and custody of her two children. Her husband, a 40-year-old photographer and television director named Herbert Gehr, had bitterly refused to grant it. Since New York law lists only one basis for divorce -adultery-Mrs. Gehr had grimly set out to prove that a sloe-eyed charmer named Mrs. Dorothea Matthews was inside the cottage with her husband...
Because English weather did not agree with his ailing mother, Queen Aliyah, Iraq's sloe-eyed boy King, Feisal II, 15, decided to change schools, checked out of Harrow and flew home to sunny Baghdad to enter the Iraqi Military College...
...show's brightest attractions were the French girls Renoir was "always anxious to paint as beautiful fruits." Three-fourths of the pictures were dominated by his sloe-eyed, apple-cheeked, melon-curved women who had a tree-ripened look about them that few other painters could match. Filled with preternatural healthiness, they always seemed to enjoy themselves-boating, strolling on the beach, playing at shuttlecock, buying a hat or peacefully dozing...