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...week's end, the junta found itself involved in diplomatic wrist-slapping with Chile. The Chilean government asked the Council of the Organization of American States to consider Venezuela's refusal to let ex-President Romulo Betancourt leave Caracas' Colombian embassy, where he had been since the coup. Replied the junta: 1) Betancourt had just been given a safe-conduct, and Chile knew it; 2) Chile had been guilty of an "unfriendly act" in even mentioning the subject. To make it stronger, the junta called its ambassador home from Santiago...
Faye Emerson Roosevelt was recovering nicely from a minor razor gash on her wrist (eight stitches were taken, but only for what her doc Lor called "esthetic" reasons) and a major attack of tabloid headlines. After the first front-page flurries about an attempt at suicide had subsided, she and Elliott told their story: she had really cut her wrist accidentally while reaching for some aspirin...
...President even talking about arrests and Justice Department action? The truth is that this is not 'red-herring' stuff and the country deserves to have the Administration and the committee dealing with it seriously and soberly, and not with the back of the political wrist...
Peace was also on the march elsewhere in Palestine. On the northern front, where Israel's army still held a strip of Lebanon, Arab villagers were doing a brisk business with Jewish troops in nylons and wrist watches smuggled from Beirut. Lebanese village muktars (village chiefs) were giving banquets for Israeli staff officers, who in turn supplied them with sugar and other foods scarce in Lebanon. At Beersheba in the Negeb desert, 19 sheiks, with a solemn signing with rings, had petitioned Israel for protection. An Arab leader in a Jaffa jail complained to his lawyer that...
...Gene Kelly is D'Artagnan, and what a D'Artagnan! He calmly scales a castle rampart at night, casually rips down whole sets of draperies with a flick of his wrist, hefts a 500-pound bronze statue and chucks it at half a dozen charging varlets--and then springs up a tavern wall to help a friend in danger. In the arms of evil Lady de Turner, he shows that he's just a simple country boy at heart...