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Last week sleek yachts bobbed at anchor in Venice's lagoon as the guests arrived, accompanied by a swarm of reporters, rubbernecks and still hopeful last-minute invitation seekers. Cinemactress Irene Dunne, arriving by air to attend the Venetian film festival, came ready with a special red velvet costume, just in case. It took the best efforts of Hollywood pressagentry to wangle her an invitation just an hour before the party began. Perle Mesta, reputedly bidless, told reporters firmly: "I want it understood that I am not going...
...relatively prosperous streets, the West's strongest counter-attractions last week: 1) free meals and movies; 2) a dazzling U.S. display of electric toy trains; 3) a U.S. Air Force helicopter which was sent up to keep an eye on the festival, but almost got lost in a swarm of 20,000 cooing pigeons released by the Communist state managers as symbols of Red-style "peace...
Every Sunday now, rain or shine, a blue bus jounces into Alamadi. Children swarm into the street, shouting: "The doctors have come." The bus brings 16 medical students, a dozen doctors, two nurses, and boxes of medicines and ointments, hypodermics and surgical instruments...
...Russian technicians who swarm all over China constitute its newest set of privileged taipans. Russian politicos are also much in evidence in Peking, where Chou's Foreign Ministry often plays second fiddle to the Soviet Embassy. While the Russian ambassador is ostensibly the highest Soviet official in China, he is actually outranked by another, more shadowy figure referred to only as the 'political representative,' who sits in on all meetings of the Chinese Politburo itself. From all-over evidence, the Russians could not be in more direct control if they moved the whole Chinese government to Moscow...
Between July 4 and Labor Day, vacationers swarm to the Cape, renting every available room, boat, and bath house. The year-round residents either retire to moderate solitude or turn themselves zealously to the business of draining every possible dollar from the summer trade...