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...series of interviews with TIME Reporter Jay Cocks, Farrow, speaking in her sotto voce that raises "Good morning" to the level of a state secret, took some of those particles and put them together in vaguely chronological order. In nearly every respect, Farrow began as Hoffman's polar opposite. He was outside show business with his nose pressed up against the window. In Hollywood, Mia was Old Money: her father was Director John Farrow, her mother Actress Maureen O'Sullivan. The third of seven children, Mia was always the vulnerable one. "I got all the diseases," she recalls, "including polio...
While preparing for the opening curtain of La Gioconda at Miami's Dade County Auditorium, Tenor Richard Tucker suddenly noticed an air-conditioned chill. "Turn it off," he complained; the cool air, he said, would freeze his throat. But of course, said the impresario-and sotto voce told his assistant to leave it on. All through the first two acts, Tucker's anger mounted. Finally, just before the third act he announced: "Unless the air conditioning is turned off, I do not sing a note!" Someone mentioned that the audience might leave. "Let them!" Tucker roared. "They must...
...Bless You." Unlike previous Kennedy trips outside the country, this one was conducted sotto voce-there were no formal public speeches-and minus retinue. He even left his wife Ethel home, traveled with just two U.S. newsmen and one unofficial aide, New York Attorney William vanden Heuvel. One left-at-home assistant was incredulous: "Who's paying the taxi drivers? Who's finding the cuff links?" Who, indeed? Kennedy arrived in Bonn with one cuff waving. These and other mishaps were minor, although he was obliged at the Oxford Union to detour via a ladies' lavatory...
...rather than see their delivery dates postponed well beyond 1974, the airlines are likely to come through with the cash. As it is, the Administration ploy is no great surprise. New Transportation Secretary Alan S. Boyd, whose department will take over the SST, was not exactly speaking sotto voce last month when he told Senators at his confirmation hearings that "I would like to see private enterprise put up as much money as it possibly could. You know, there is a lot to be said for having your own money on the line to spur a program along...
...resent the dumping of Lolli, an expert on international monetary matters whose views on the gold flow have been sought by the U.S. Treasury and Congress. The sequence of events that led to the Longo-Lolli resignations, said an editorial in the left-of-center Republican Party newspaper La Voce Republicana last week, could be "an error whose consequences could be irreparable...