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Appearance: Stocky (5 ft. 6 in., about 200 Ibs.), trim, with an old cavalryman's stiff yet colorful swagger, a hard face that creases into an Ike-size smile. "A man of the earth," says the U.S.'s Paratrooper General James Gavin. "Short, pudgy fingers and a lot of brains...
...Paco Malgesto sauntered into his Mexico City TV studio only 30 minutes before show time, glanced vaguely over the program and took to the air. Up wriggled his guest, an Uruguayan beauty queen named Eda Lorna. She was muffled in a red velvet robe from chin to trim ankle. "It says here," said Malgesto politely, "that you dance the mambo in ballet style." Eda impatiently corrected him: "I dance the mambo in sexy style," dramatically ripped off her robe and with only a G-string to protect her from studio drafts, did her routine. Frantically Paco gestured for his cameramen...
WEST GERMAN INFLATION will be eased by 25% tariff cut designed to spur import of low-cost foreign goods, trim West Germany's $4.95 billion gold and foreign-exchange reserves, which are mounting at rate of $1 billion a year. To tighten domestic money supply the Bank Deutscher Laender (the government's central bank) will also lend $100 million to World Bank at terms of from one to three years at 4¼% interest...
...niece pursues the sad thief and is repulsed, while the gay thief pursues the sad niece and is repulsed. Elderly Lord Edgard wants peace and quiet; the youthful musician thrives on sound and activity. There are Dupont-Dufort pere and fils, who always dress alike--the father trim and intelligent, the son fat and dull-witted; and they fall into the hands of a pair of cops, who of course also dress alike...
...West Germany's Volkswagen, Britain's Hillman Minx. Looking for a share of this market, France's Renault is plumping its racy (up to 75 m.p.h.), efficient (43 miles per gallon), economical (from $1,645) Dauphine. For American tastes Renault splashed the Dauphine with chrome trim, bolstered it with reinforced bumpers. U.S. reaction has been warm. Dauphine found 3,970 U.S. buyers in the first half of 1957, and second-half sales are accelerating so fast that Renault is now sending 140 Dau-phines a day to its 350 U.S. dealers...