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...Rolling Stones, summer has been a whirlwind tour of the U.S. with a small army of technicians and groupies, to showcase a grab bag of gritty songs from a sizzling new album, Some Girls. On most of their dates, the Stones have rolled around ever-devilish Mick Jagger. But in Tucson, Ariz., the group added a bit of Sunbelt beauty to its act. Announced Jagger: "Now we're going to have a hometown girl sing with us and give her a chance." As any frequenter of Ronstadt's Hardware store in Tucson might have known, the guest...
...Chinese leader delivered a now familiar blast at the Americans and the Russians: "The superpowers are racking their brains to divide and sabotage the Third World movement by despicable means, but the nonaligned countries are uniting to frustrate their schemes." By week's end Keng had completed similar whirlwind propaganda visits to Trinidad and Tobago and Guyana, where local leaders received him with the bemused formality that reflected continuing policy differences with China...
...small city and the middle-class fan that get trampled in this financial whirlwind...
Hussein's courtship of Lisa Halaby was a whirlwind affair that spanned only ten weeks before he proposed and she accepted. After graduating from Princeton in 1974 with a degree in architecture, she took a job with an airlines service company in which her father holds an interest; a year ago she landed a position as designer and decorator for Alia,* the Royal Jordanian Airlines. Lisa first met the King three months ago,.when she and her visiting father were royal house guests at the winter palace in Aqaba. The twosome quickly discovered a common interest in sailing, skiing...
Once, the couple's whirlwind courtship and globally televised marriage had moved sentimental Britons to the core. The tabloids fondly called Snowdon "the Jones boy." Their son David, Viscount Linley, was born in 1961, followed by a daughter, Lady Sarah Armstrong-Jones, in 1964. But by 1967 the marriage began to show visible strains. Rumors abounded of Snowdon's dalliance with fashion models. Increasingly, Margaret appeared imperiously scornful of him in front of friends, throwing down too many gins and tonic, while he tooled around with a trendy branch of the Mayfair smart...