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Says British Publisher Mark" Goulden, publisher of Collector's Choice: "Money is an abstract thing to him, representing vast power. His frugality is a wall he has built around himself deliberately to stave off people who want to have a piece of his colossal wealth. I don't believe for a moment that he gets any enjoyment out of his money. He's just a miser-period...
Getty makes little effort to stave off one group. He is still as fond of attractive women as he was in his bachelor days, has squired a collection of them through Europe. Kis current favorite is dark, stately Penelope Kitson, 34, a British divorcee and mother of three children. Still healthy and vigorous, Getty keeps in shape with a daily round of calisthenics, dyes his hair, has had his face lifted in a London clinic. He drinks sparingly of dark rum in Coca-Cola, constantly munches chocolates, does not smoke, and does not like others to smoke in his presence...
...Proposed that the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. "should make it the policy of our two governments" not to use the veto in the U.N. Security Council to stave off the peaceful settlement of disputes...
...championship behind her, Althea lost not a set as she worked her way onto the center court for the payoff match with California's Louise Brough. A canny and experienced campaigner who had won the title herself just ten years ago, Louise tried every trick she knew to stave off the inevitable. She pounded Althea's weak backhand, only to watch it grow stronger. She tried to step up the speed of her own serves, only to make deadly double faults. Taking her time, getting more depth on her shots as her opposition faded, Althea had things...
...sense that it grasps all the varied foreign-aid operations and sorts them, logically, into a streamlined framework comprehensible at home and abroad. The program is new in the sense that the Administration now seeks to deploy the U.S.'s economic might not merely to stave off Communist aggression but to roll it back by enlarging the area and the appeal of freedom-plus-economic-progress. Moreover, the new program, evolving out of such successful predecessors as the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan, is in keeping with U.S. traditions and the U.S. idea. "We are stirred not only...