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...When a torrid billet-doux she once wrote to Dr. Christiaan Barnard hit the Italian papers, Gina Lollobrigida filed a loud complaint. La Lollo explained that she had written the scorcher in English, hardly her best language; it had then been translated into German by Quick magazine and finally put back into her native tongue by the Italian press. The result, she said, was something less than accurate. Whatever the message, Gina is suing both Barnard and his exwife, who published the letter in her memoirs. She loved the surgeon once, Gina confesses, but left him because...
...transmitting valuable data even before the astronauts left the moon. For the time being, earth controllers commanded two of the instruments-designed to investigate any traces of lunar atmosphere-to go into a stand-by mode; that would allow earthly gases left within them to bake out during the torrid two-week-long lunar day (maximum temperature: 240° F.). Once freed of these vapors, which interfere with their high-voltage power supply, the instruments will be switched into full operation...
Then came a key play. Down two points, Dover faked Dotson onto the floor and drove underneath, only to miss the layup. McMillian quickly tallied a bucket to make it four points and then hit two free throws after a strange foul called on Gallagher during a torrid fight for a rebound of a missed Harvard shot...
After the opening minutes when it set a torrid pace but could not score, the Crimson lapsed into a reckless, careless style of play, looking for the easy score...
...star No. 1, there is no question of having to get along with people." In Spain filming 100 Rifles, a sex-and-violence western, the two stars were not even speaking to each other. "There was a real chemical thing going at first," recalls Raquel. But after a torrid love scene, the chemistry stopped. Brown refuses to discuss the matter. Says Raquel: "I don t know what happened after that. At table, I remember asking for the salt one day and hearing 'Get it yourself; its not black.' Jim just sort of withdrew into himself...