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MURIEL. Though it cannot match the gossamer style of Last Year at Marienbad, this latest work by France's Alain Resnais is an interesting failure, distinguished by the presence of beautiful Delphine Seyrig as a greying widow full of ineffable yearnings for yesteryear...
Congratulations were not necessarily in order. The Sunday summons was only the latest in a long series of legal actions that began eight months ago when Mrs. Esther James, a Harlem widow, was awarded $211,500 in a libel suit she had brought against Powell (TIME, April 12). Mrs. James has been trying to collect ever since. But so far, Powell has paid nothing. And his elaborate evasive tactics are an eloquent demonstration of how a whopping award for damages may leave the winner poorer than when he brought suit...
...First Order. The President leaned forward, kissed Lady Bird on the forehead. Mrs. Johnson turned to Jackie, held her hand and said: "The whole nation mourns your husband." Dallas Police Chief J. E. Curry stepped up and advised the widow: "God bless you, little lady, but you ought to go back and lie down." Replied Jackie: "No thanks, I'm fine." Minutes later Johnson gave his first order as President of the United States. "Now," he said, "let's get this thing airborne...
...Sarita Kenedy East. She was a granddaughter of Captain Mifflin Kenedy, who was co-founder of the famed King Ranch and later became sole owner of the neighboring La Parra Ranch-an empire of 400,000 acres and 25,000 head of cattle. Sarita was an aloof and eccentric widow who liked her whisky and was more at ease with her Mexican ranch hands than with her wealthy landowning neighbors...
...president of Continental Airlines-Ethel Merman has two grown children, a son who is a student of drama at Carnegie Tech and a daughter who is married to an insurance man in Colorado Springs. She lives in Manhattan's Park Lane Hotel. As a sort of braided-grass widow, she is free to move and move she does. This winter she will be the headliner at London's huge, expensive Talk of the Town, a nightclub that is sort of a big, bustless Latin Quarter. She is lining up concert dates in Japan and Australia. Meanwhile...