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...intellectual, politician or celebrity, a tempting proposition this year is a trip to Fidel Castro's Cuba, where a visitor can see real revolution in action while enjoying the uncrowded comforts of a winter resort. The invitation usually comes from an overseas official of Castro's July 26 movement, who arrives bearing a free, first-class ticket on Cubana...
...ever sure just what Mrs. William J. Gunn was up to. Day after day she and her husband would go off on one of their mysterious drives. Even after he died, she carried on those expeditions alone. She seemed to have plenty of money, and the occasional visitor to her home, which she_ kept surrounded by two fences, could catch a glimpse of what she spent it on-Chinese bric-a-brac, 18th century books, and antique card cases that she had persuaded her amenable husband to adopt as a hobby. But what of the "pictures" she once maintained...
Guided at the airport by an unusually paternal President Charles de Gaulle, who towered a foot above him, the little visitor made his way down a 150-yard red carpet, past the lines of severely correct Frenchmen in cutaways. Then, standing on a carpet that had originally been woven for Napoleon's Josephine, he plunged into a round of handshakes in his now familiar manner-a quick look down for the hand, a look up for the owner, a short shake, and then onward. Behind him came friendly, roly-poly Mme. Nina Petrovna Khrushchev in black astrakhan coat...
...Hollywood," says Simone Signoret, "there is a tendency to think this place is the world. Sometimes I think people should get out of here." But not this week. This week, thanks to her performance in a brilliant English movie, Room at the Top (TIME, April 20, 1959), the visitor from France owns the town. Most of the smart money is backing her for an Oscar when the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences gives its award for the year's best actress. Whether she wins or not, hers is certainly the only new face -and the most exciting...
...convicted of robbery and murder in 1897, who, when offered parole in 1930, toured the outside for a day, wept at the sight of cars instead of buggies, short skirts instead of bustles, and refused to leave the penitentiary; in Rhode Island State Prison, where he saw his last visitor in 1898, received his last letter...