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...Barbra made everything work, from a reprise of her Funny Girl hits to a Baby Snooks number evoking how it all began - the gawky gosling from Brooklyn who didn't see Manhattan until she was 14, and when she walked into Bergdorfs in her trench coat, "everyone looked funny at me." Then she came out to show off two other Streisands, one a gamine in slacks and sweater and short hairdo ("like Nureyev"), the other a coolly elegant woman in a simple black sheath that displays the sophistication of 22 going...
...carefully made their way through the steel and concrete skeletons of one of Latin America's biggest housing projects-52 apartment towers, each twelve stories high, rising over 30 acres on the outskirts of Lima to provide government housing for 10,000 people. Stepping lightly across an open trench, a well-dressed visitor fell into step beside the chief engineer and started firing intense questions. "Is it going fast enough?" he demanded. "What are your problems?" "Are you getting all the help you need?" Everything was on schedule, replied the engineer. As the two circled the project, workers...
...biggest target of all. Colgate-Palmolive is test-marketing an 007 line of men's toiletries "that make any man dangerous." In May, Revere Knitting Mills will bring out knit shirts with the numerals 007 embroidered on them. Spatz Bros, of New York is making a new 007 trench-coat with secret pockets, throws a plastic Beretta into the bargain. Weldon Manufacturing is planning his and hers pajamas with secret pockets, and Harry Diamond Corp. is making 007 swimsuits and sports shirts. Angostura Bitters has begun pushing an 007 drink-gin or vodka with lemon juice, sugar, soda...
...When a defendant takes the stand he is a witness," said the court. "He is entitled to the same courtesies and consideration as all the others involved in the proceedings. The presumption of innocence, apart from other factors, requires no less than that nothing be permitted to trench on that presumption...
Hong Kong's British garrison was put on the alert last week, and police leaves were canceled. Governor Sir David Trench appealed for calm over radio and TV. The stock market dipped. The crown colony was having something of a crisis, but it had nothing to do with the escalating warfare in South Viet Nam. It was caused instead by a run on a handful of Hong Kong's Chinese-owned banks...