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...heady days after Suez, when Russian MIGs were uncrated in Cairo and Nikita Khrushchev grandly picked up the tab for the Aswan Dam, such a turn of affairs could not have been imagined. But in Cairo last week, big red headlines hit the street. COMMUNIST PROPAGANDA ATTACKS US, cried one daily. RUSSIA TRIES BLACKMAIL, screamed another. Khrushchev, who used to boast of Egyptian-Russian relations as an example of how the Communists could get along with another nation "whose social system is different from ours," had abruptly turned his venom on Gamal Abdel Nasser...
...scout for the Kansas City Athletics, Lew Krausse Sr., who pitched for the A's in Philadelphia in the 1930s, kept close tab on an 18-year-old Chester, Pa., sensation who pitched 18 high school no-hitters. Last week Krausse and the A's landed the boy. His name: Lew Krausse Jr. His price: a $125,000 bonus...
...dictator in lots of 100. The committee still had no visible funds to pay for the tractors, but hoped to find them in 25,000 unopened letters. If and when Castro agreed to the deal, the committee would open the letters. But in order to pay the $16 million tab, each letter would have to contain a donation...
...testing is the kind of nonsense that directors' assistants have assistants deal with in the U.S. But Gleason, who dreamed up Gigot because "I got fed up with seeing those psychological deals where Tab Hunter falls in love with a goat." wanted to do the film on location in Paris with French actors and crew...
...Hollywood, perhaps even more than in Manhattan, going out to lunch is a rite and an art, and in such gin-filled aquariums as the Brown Derby and Romanoff's, the tab frequently exceeds what a strong man could earn in a month delivering milk or teaching high school algebra. But last week it seemed that matters had gotten out of hand. Spyros Skouras, the sovereign lord of 20th Century-Fox, had summoned Writer-Producer-Director Leslie Stevens to a staff lunch. Stevens, whose Daystar Corp. forms a powerful fealty under the Skouras fief, sent a proxy, and Skouras...