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Sandwiched between President Tito and Mrs. Gandhi, Australia's conservative Prime Minister William McMahon arrived in Washington last week to discuss his country's alliance with the U.S. But who could concentrate on such matters when he brought along his wife, Sonia, a tall, smashing, 39-year-old blonde, who appeared at the White House in a white crepe evening gown that was slit up both sides, all the way from Melbourne to Brisbane? "I chose it for her," said McMahon, 63, a bachelor until six years ago. "I would never have been so daring," murmured Sonia...
...McMahon's most obvious assets in the job will be his wife Sonia. 38, a striking blonde who at 5 ft. 9 in. stands two inches taller than her husband. The evening before McMahon's victory, a photographer caught Sonia descending the stairs from Canberra's Parliament House just as a fortuitous gust of wind caught her high-slit black crepe maxiskirt. "The wind blew at the wrong moment," said Sonia. Not necessarily. Some observers suggested that the resulting thigh-high picture might well have swung a few votes in McMahon's favor...
...formally sacked as chairman of the Federal Assembly and replaced by Lawyer Dalibor Hanes, a political tide-rider. Josef Smrkovsky, Dubcek's most loyal lieutenant, was officially removed from the Assembly's deputy chairmanship. His successor is a photogenic if not a political improvement. She is Sonia Pennigerova, a 41-year-old pediatrician, whose brunette good looks make her Eastern Europe's prettiest national officeholder...
...Bettelheim, 66, who is best known for his innovative studies of children's emotional development, has turned his protean mind to student radicals. He sees some in his private therapeutic practice, and observes others on the campus of the University of Chicago, where he teaches and directs the Sonia Shankman School for psychotic children. His considered conclusion is that American parents and American society have not given today's youth the emotional equipment for engaging in rational and constructive protest. In the September issue of the British magazine Encounter, Bettelheim spells out his ideas, which have been raising...
...COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL (four volumes), edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. A remarkable record of the political and intellectual history of Western Europe during the '30s and '40s by the author of Animal Farm...