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Nothing Indelicate. As for Mummy herself, she remains rosy-cheeked, good-humored and dashingly dressed throughout, with nary a swollen ankle or an extra pound of weight to trouble her. There is no question but that her gentle gestation will terminate in the totally painless birth of a perfect, silky-haired baby who, like Mother, will never be bothered by anything so indelicate as diaper rash or colic...
...courtship, they set up housekeeping in a Caracas slum. They gave no thought to matrimony, but then neither had Esperanza's mother nor her older brothers and sisters. The love affair was stormy, filled with arguments and fights, and twice Esperanza went home to mother, each time swollen with child. Now, four years later, Esperanza and her two children live with her mother in a wood-and-cardboard shack, and she accepts her deserted, unwed state as quite natural. "She just had bad luck," says her mother. "It could happen to anyone...
Cloth is the chief material for his generals. Some of them, like Portrait of a General (1961'), are uniformed in camouflage colors, their swollen chests decorated with real ribbons, braid and buttons. (The eyes are real watch faces.) The backgrounds, like those of most of his works, are remnants of fancy brocade, scraps of mattress ticking. He uses felt for faces, slopping on features with paint; sometimes the mouths have shards of glass for teeth, bits of lace for noses...
...first figures had greatly underestimated the mansion's needs-additions have swollen the planned area from 13,000 to 22,000 sq. ft.-and the cost of foundation and landscaping. Brown hotly denied that his wife's suggestions (extra bedrooms, a larger kitchen) had caused the inflation. "She made a few changes." said Brown, "but not $400,000 worth." Brown will ask the legislature for the extra money, but he still has a good many nights to spend with his rope. Said the Governor wearily: "We've tried to be good soldiers about this...
...largest Italian real estate and construction company. Founded in Turin in 1862, Immobiliare moved to Rome with the unification of Italy in 1870, and laid the foundations of its present prosperity by buying up pasture land around the Eternal City. Since then, Rome's population has swollen from 215,000 to more than 2,000,000, and as Rome has grown so has Immobiliare. In 1961 the company's after-tax profits hit a record...