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Foxes & Friendship. Using commerce as a toe hold, Peking has established trade missions in Mexico and Chile. Last year Mexico sold an estimated 500,000 tons of wheat to China, plus 22,000 bales of cotton; a 500,000-bale deal is pending for this year. Chile is selling nitrates and a small amount of copper. Roving teams of Chinese businessmen have bought wheat in Argentina, arranged to sell some textiles in Haiti. But so far Latin Americans have generally bought little. U.S. estimates put Chinese sales to Latin America at only $25 million last year...
Humphrey, of course, badly wanted the job, but he had to walk tippy-toe in seeking it. He knew Lyndon Johnson would resent any overt pressures aimed at forcing him into selecting a particular running mate...
...population, there is no mistaking the deformity. Ellis-van "Creveld dwarfs range in height from only 40 to 60 inches. They have six fingers on each hand, the extra one being on the outside of the hand beyond the little finger. Sometimes (but not consistently) there is a sixth toe on one foot or both. Although it is not conspicuous at birth, many dwarf babies have an abnormal heart with only three chambers instead of four (no septum between the auricles), and a weakness or deficiency of cartilage in the chest and around the windpipe. One-fourth of the dwarf...
...flying circus, in Goldfinger, the new James Bond thriller. Another face from Britain in Goldfinger belongs to Shirley Eaton, 27, blonde alumna of endless Carry On . . . comedies. No leather for Shirley: she appears once in a startling sort of bathing-suitless strap, later gets gold-plated from head to toe. "I end up dead," she says, "looking like an Oscar statue...
...Sophie Daumier, 27, lives with her ten-year-old son Philippe ("His father? Bah, a boy who wasn't worth marrying") and Actor Guy Bedos. A onetime toe dancer, she made ten films before last year's Dragées au Poivre (Sweet and Sour) established Sophie as "the most exuberant comic of the Nouvelle Vague." The latest Bedos-Daumier hit, Aimez-Vous les Femmes?, is a comedy about cannibalism; the piece de resistance is Sophie au naturel...