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...five separate conferences. Latin Americans have been well aware of Castroite subversion and gun running. Yet if given a choice, they looked the other way, talked interminably about nonintervention, and administered only the mildest of wrist-slaps. This time, Cuba's Communists had been caught redhanded: a three-ton terrorist arms cache uncovered on a Venezuelan beach and traced directly to Cuban arsenals. The angry Venezuelans demanded strong action. The U.S. worked quietly behind the scenes to see that they...
...Italian Sculptor Giacomo Manzù to get on with a Vatican commission for new bronze doors for the left-hand side of St. Peter's façade. Manzù, who comes from Bergamo, Pope John's birthplace, listened and obeyed. Last month workmen hoisted the ten-ton bronze portals into place...
...Oklahoma graduate who studied geology and petroleum engineering, Mecom keeps twelve geologists and three geophysicists at work in his search, makes all the final decisions himself. He maintains a fleet of 27 airplanes and a private navy that includes a converted LST, three oceangoing tugs and a 5,000-ton freighter named Little John. Mecom lives with his wife and two daughters (he also has a married son) in a Frenchlike chateau in Houston, owns three cattle ranches and a private zoo of lions, zebras, gazelles and camels. A man who hardly hesitates before he plows $120 million into...
...years after he began, Bloom was a millionaire. He knew how to live like one too. He married a dazzling blonde secretary, got himself a black Rolls and her a white Mercedes, took a Park Lane apartment and a Riviera villa, and bought a gleaming, $1,000,000, 376-ton yacht named Ariane. Bloom cultivated a goatee to hide his youth, spent half an hour daily with his hairdresser. Through it all, he flamboyantly plugged himself as a friend of the housewife, pal of the working man, scourge of the City and enemy of the Establishment...
Vesper almost did not get into the trials at all, thanks to a mix-up in the mails. Their registration arrived after the deadline: only a last-minute decision by the U.S. Olympic Committee allowed them to compete. Seeded fourth, be hind California, Harvard and Washing ton, Vesper did not figure to offer much competition to the younger col lege crews. Their average age was 26, and only the presence of two under graduate ringers from La Salle College kept it that low. The part-time coach, Allan Rosenberg, is a Philadelphia law yer. The coxswain, Robert Zimonyi...