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What was Castro up to? On one level, Allende hoped that the Cuban revolutionary's presence would sanctify his own efforts to tame Chile's obstreperous unions and mollify the extremists who want to turn the country into a pure socialist state overnight. With those elements, Castro certainly scored some points; one Chuquicamata copper miner enthusiastically told newsmen last week that "Fidel made us see the importance of our producing more. Now, we are all Fidelistas." But the visit also cost Allende some of his remaining good will among the Chilean political middle, which does not hold...
...Duncan and Gjon Mili. From their breathless accounts a satyr rises, mythic, Gargantuan, and fatally easy to parody. The Maestro's working day, one might suppose, begins with a light breakfast of goat's testicles and salade niçoise. Then, surrounded by a flock of admiring tame doves, he descends to his studio and executes 30 engravings, two murals and a still life. At lunch, having done a zapateado before the avid lenses of a team from Paris Match, he gives Dominguin some
PACIFYING GINGER For two weeks, Hurricane Ginger moved erratically east and west in the mid-Atlantic. Then it stalled, 650 nautical miles off the Florida coast. For the scientists of Project Stormfury, a long wait was over: now they had an opportunity to experiment with and perhaps partially tame a major hurricane while it was a safe distance from populated land areas...
...that man must always try to oppress the free, tame the wild and humble the proud? There is one thing, however, he cannot take from the mustang -its beauty...
...last few years, as the sexual revolution progressed, the once tantalizing concept of prancing nude through the woods came to seem tame indeed to Southern Californians. Even last year's special event-nude skydiving with music by 15 bare members of the Long Beach Municipal Band-was sparsely attended. Just as well, perhaps, since one hapless skydiver was badly scratched when he landed in a buckthorn patch...