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...movie theaters round the country the most talked-about new film is Todo Modo (In Every Way), a surrealistic thriller built around a savage portrayal of the Christian Democratic leadership, including Aldo Moro, the country's Premier. In one scene, Marcello Mastroianni, playing a satanic priest, conducts a doom-laden spiritual retreat for the Christian Democratic chiefs, and snarls at them: "After 30 years in power, how much longer do you really think you have? You are all dead, can't you understand? Dead...
...visit has absolutely nothing todo with education," said Cynthia Angelides, an employee in Hilles Library and an anti-junta activist. "I just feel responsible for doing something about...
ESSAY probes a paradox of U.S. affluence-it seems almost necessary to be a millionaire to afford servants these days, but some people are trying todo something about it. See Help Wanted: Maybe Mary Poppins, Inc. Servants of the churches are not free of financial concerns either, and gone are the days of "the clergyman's rate." Men of the cloth now pay the full price. See RELIGION, The Disappearing Discount. And in the entertainment world, a blue-eyed crooner, son of a bartender, can make as much as $30,000 a week on the cabaret circuit. See SHOW...
Beards of a feather? Not really. The beard on the new Cuban 13-centavo stamp belonged not to Fidel but to Abraham Lincoln, whose likeness appeared below his famous admonition: "Se puede engahar a todo el pueblo parte del tiempo, se puede engahar a parte del pueblo todo el tiempo, pero no se puede engahar a todo el pueblo todo el tiempo." The lines-more familiar to Americans as "You may fool all of the people some of the time," etc.-were obviously meant to refer to the Yanquis. Cubans may just possibly apply them to someone else...
...problem. Frei asked for the right to create four new ministries, set up a national economic planning office, and modify tariffs as necessary, all of which required congressional approval. Every Chilean President has made similar requests upon assuming office, and Congress has normally granted permission with a minimum of todo. This time, right-wing conservatives joined left-wing Communists and Socialists to talk the proposal to death, arguing that "Frei is trying to concentrate too much power in one man's hands." Seeing the futility of it all, Frei finally withdrew all three of his key bills...