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...Great Gift. In her best-known films, she has played relatively withdrawn women. The camera has dwelt upon her beauty and her curious combination of innocence and sensuality, a combination that her lover, French Actor-Director Christian Marquand, calls her essential quality. "She's slightly schizophrenic," says Marquand, "and that gives her a great gift of poetry and a natural perception of things." Some observers wonder, however, if she can act in a wider variety of parts. De Sica seems not to be one of the doubters; he sees her liabilities more as a factor of age than temperament...
...gang was carrying, the financing of the operation was soon traced to accounts controlled by Barker in Miami's Republic National Bank. The money was part of $89,000 that Barker had received from an as yet unidentified source in Mexico City in April. Recently all was withdrawn and an estimated $30,000 was then spent for the costly eavesdropping equipment as well as the group's living and operational expenses...
...program was financially unmanageable for one other reason. As outside fellowship support was withdrawn, teaching fellows who lost their outside support became eligible...
...gray suitcase and a plastic dress bag that she packed with 15 outfits, including a few that could be worn in any weather-a prime consideration for a woman traveling from Moscow to Teheran. Wherever she went, she was accompanied by wives of top Soviet officials, who are normally withdrawn and formal. They joined her for tea in the czarist family apartments in the Kremlin or posed gamely for incessant picture taking in front of statues in Red Square...
...Since the tests are specifically designed to measure emissions from cars that have been kept in less than topnotch condition-as will often happen when they get into buyers' hands-the unscheduled repair work threw a monkey wrench into Ford's results. Earlier the company had quietly withdrawn its application for engine approval from the Environmental Protection Agency, and last week it announced that four testing employees were being "reassigned." Growled an angry Henry Ford II: "It is fair to say we are in one hell of a lot of trouble...