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...named the Bonjour anchored just off Stockholm. After one month of illicit broadcasting into Sweden. Radio Nord is doing a beaming business. Listeners bored with Radio Sweden's staid fare are sending Radio Nord more than 1.ooo fan letters a day, and such companies as Westinghouse, Max Factor, Vespa (motorscooters) and B.M.W. (midget cars) have snapped up time for spot commercials. A boat maker who ran a contest on Nord got 5,000 entries in five days. Radio Nord's charge for a primetime, 60-second spot: $40. The Bonjour is owned by a wheeler-dealer Texan, Dallas...
...estranged wife, Katy Jurado, wrangled in the street, cameras popped. They caught Actor Cornel Wilde struggling with a local heckler, froze Anita Ekberg's bosom as it heaved in a wild dance at a private Roman orgy. When Katharine Hepburn passed through town recently, the paparazzi mounted Vespa scooters, putt-putted out to waylay her at Fiumicino Airport. Because Ava Gardner once called him a dirty name. Paparazzo Tazio Secchiaroli vengefully hid for hours in a cardboard box on a Cinecitta movie lot, finally got what he came for: an unflattering shot of Ava in an old bath towel...
...committee got entrance exams from the University of Hawaii, raffled off a Vespa motorscooter at a $1,150 profit. When the McCain reached Naha, Okinawa in December, she mustered a U.S. diplomat and two missionaries to find six able, poor boys who would promise to return to Okinawa and help their people. Among the candidates: Hoshin Nakamura, 19, son of a small farmer in the village of Sashki. A B-plus senior at rigorous Chinen Senior High School, Hoshin had no money for college. With ease, he passed the McCain's first test: a statement of purpose. Said Hoshin...
...auto and equipment makers gathered for the 46th Paris Automobile Salon, Europe's most important auto show. So eager were Frenchmen to see the new cars that Paris hotels were booked solid weeks in advance. What they saw were cars ranging from Italy's tiny $1,070 Vespa Deluxe to Rolls-Royce's most expensive model, the $26,000 Phantom V, designed for "important guests and executives," with a TV set, figured French walnut woodwork and air conditioning that adjusts automatically. There was also a multifuel engine, designed for trucks and military vehicles, that Britain...
Much the same third that favor basic socialization also support "immediate unilateral suspension of atomic tests" by the United States (hence the little green stickers on Vespa fenders: Halt Bomb Tests), and "reduction of current unemployment by government action, even at the price of aggravating inflation...