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Congressman Eligio ("Kika") de la Garza, a Texas Democrat, returned last week from a 16-day tour of New Zealand and Australia, with two-day stopovers in both Singapore and Hawaii. The chairman of the House Agriculture Committee and three colleagues were said to be on "official business," delving into farm and trade issues. Perhaps De la Garza's trip was necessary and useful. But what makes it at least appear extravagant is that so far this year he has already visited Greece, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Brazil, South Africa, the Dominican Republic and Italy...
Dean Carroll Wellington, New Zealand...
...major studios, which naturally want to keep the market cornered." Directors must become studio outlaws, raising money from independent sources, and this demands as much ingenuity as planning and shooting a film. Oshima financed his last three films with help from producers in France, Britain and New Zealand. Other directors may receive grants from the Art Theater Guild, which in the past 20 years has helped launch the careers of Oshima, Susumu Hani and Masahiro Shinoda. "If Japanese cinema hasn't become extinct," says Critic Sato, "it is because of the life-and-death efforts of directors who risk...
...Sharon Mann, 23, a drama student in a formerly yellow blouse. Aleyda Warren, a Londoner who had been visiting friends in Connecticut, figured that she had spent $100 during her four days in line. Other standbys were cheerful: Bill Lockyer and his wife Joy, a retired couple from New Zealand, had seen a Broadway show (Elizabeth Taylor in Private Lives) with the money they would save on People. A bargain, said Lockyer; if they lost out on the Saturday plane they would line up the next...
...visitor feels Bob looks shorter in person than on the TV monitor.) He also gets a new twist on "singing," when Guest Star John Schneider (The Dukes of Hazzard) belts out "It's not where you start. It's where you finish." Finally, Miss New Zealand, Lorraine Elizabeth Downes, 19, is proclaimed Miss Universe. The alien reads the data sheet Downes filled out before the competition. "Occupation: model. Hobbies: dance, regular workouts at gym, swimming, tennis, jogging. Life ambition: to strive for a good quality of life, and to be appreciative of what I accomplish in my life...