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...returned from a vacation cruise aboard the yacht of a wealthy friend. Was he by any chance accepting a questionable favor? "Only demagogues," snaps Muñoz, "cannot afford to be seen anywhere except drinking bad gin with a man who has no shoes on." He has a mighty temper and lusty tastes. There is only one liquor he is cool toward -much to the distress of the promoters of Puerto Rico's excellent rums. After chain-smoking most of his life, he gave it up nine years...
Royal Opera House (TIME, June 16), featuring a full-throated aria (from Bellini's I Puritani) by temper-tossing Diva Maria Callas. Said the Queen to Maria: "What a magnificent performance...
POLITICAL NOTES Water for the Elephant Farm Economist William G. Murray, 54, on leave from Iowa State College to take his first flyer at statewide office, wasted no time on temper last winter when Republican bosses studiously ignored his early race for Governor. "I haven't carried enough water to the Elephant," he acknowledged after a glance over the shoulder toward plodding Lieut. Governor W. H. Nicholas, who at 65 has spent more than a generation tending every breed of party animal. Genial Billy Murray, a Presbyterian six-footer with a scoutmaster's look of integrity and energy...
Citation: ''May the wisdom of ... Sophocles temper your despair as you encounter problems that cannot readily be solved, and your soldier's courage drive you to their solutions...
...Orioles' Billy Loes, baseball's bad boy, was fined $100 and given a week off without pay for his display of temper in the game against the Senators Sunday...