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...date, 230 people own der Grosse (or its slightly smaller version, priced at only $20,000), and another 600 have placed orders. Among them are King Hussein, Marshal Tito, Archbishop Makarios, Indonesia's Sukarno, Playboy Hugh Hefner and Mao Tse-tung. If LTD customers will not be traveling in such fast company, at least they can ostentatiously watch their TV or chat on the phone as Mercedes 600 sails by. But then, Mercedes passengers may be too exhilarated to notice-their car has a built...
...Tightrope. They were beginning to sound cranky about it up there too. When Yugoslavia's Tito urged talks to settle the war, North Viet Nam irritably accused him of "peddling the sinister design of 'peaceful negotiations.' " When the Viet Cong guerrillas said they were considering asking Communist countries "to send youths and army men," Peking responded with a promise "to send our men whenever the Vietnamese want them." To underscore the threat, Premier Chou En-lai declared that President Johnson "is risking some surprises" by "dancing on the tightrope of war." Added Chou: "The American Government will...
Tosca is a jealous lover, and Callas played the part with pantherish intensity, purring innocently one moment, spitting hellfire the next. In the second-act encounter with the lecherous police chief Scarpia, splendidly portrayed by Baritone Tito Gobbi, Callas was at her supercharged best. When the soldiers carried off her Mario, they nearly buckled under her pummeling. She lurched desperately about the stage fending off Scarpia's advances, then in a violent flash drove a knife into his heart. Callas and Gobbi treated the Met to one of the best-acted performances it has seen in many a year...
...said in a different context, "treading between the abysses." That means supporting radical social reform while opposing subservience to the totalitarians. Since admiration for Marxism and enthusiasm for reform are usually linked in the modern world, that means recognizing and supporting indigenous independent Marxists. To the extent that Tito and Castro are independent, reform-minded, and relatively unoppressive rulers, that means maintaining open relations with them...
...Seper of Zagreb after the announcement that he would be made a cardinal at Pope Paul's consistory next week. Monsignor Casaroli reported that he was "very satisfied" with the results of a recent ten-day visit to Belgrade, and Vatican officials hint that a formal agreement with Tito may be signed as early as March...