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...plan was really used by the Prime Minister as a ruse to flush out all the top contenders for his own job. There is even widespread suspicion that Nehru forced the resignations of his ablest ministers in order to clear the way for his daughter, imperious Indira Gandhi, 45, widow of a backbench Congress politician (no kin to the Mahatma), who has long been the Prime Minister's closest confidante (he calls her Indu, or Moon), official hostess and political troubleshooter...
Filmed in blatant color (plenty of raw sienna) in the booming channel city of Boulogne, Muriel delights the eye chiefly in the sentient beauty of Marienbad's Delphine Seyrig. She arrestingly portrays a frightened, fortyish widow who invites her former lover to a reunion after a separation of 22 years. A freeloading weakling and barfly, Alphonse (Jean-Pierre Kerien) arrives from Paris accompanied by a young actress he introduces as "my niece." The girl quickly attaches herself to the widow's melancholy stepson, recently returned from the war in Algeria. Soon the unlikely quartet is caught...
...will meet Rocky in next March's presidential primary, to speak at a memorial dinner for the state's late Republican Senator Styles Bridges. There 1,100 diners paid $10 apiece to help endow the Styles Bridges chair in Government at New England College. Bridges's widow Doloris and Republican Senator Norris Cotton, who is Goldwater's New Hampshire manager, both drew pointed parallels between the philosophies of Goldwater and Conservative Bridges. Proclaimed Cotton: "The finger of fate is upon the forehead of Barry Goldwater." Goldwater contented himself with a denunciation of overcentralized government...
Married. June Allyson, 40, cinemactress (The Glenn Miller Story), widow of Actor Dick Powell: and Glenn Maxwell, 31, men's hair stylist to Hollywood's elite; in Fort Lauderdale...
Died. Anna Evangeline La Chappelle Clark, 85, widow of Montana Copper King William Andrews Clark, a Michigan doctor's daughter who became Clark's ward at the height of his fame, married him in 1901 after his first wife died (he was 62), moved into his $6,000,000 Fifth Avenue mansion (121 rooms, 31 baths), after his death in 1925 (leaving a $50 million estate) sold the house to spend much of her time in California, where she founded the Paganini Quartet and equipped it with Paganini's own Stradivariuses at a cost...