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Born. To Van Heflin, 43, blond cinema he-man (Shane), and Frances Neal Heflin, 32: their third child, first son; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Tracy Neal. Weight...
...born in Quezaltenango in 1913 of a Ladino mother and a moody Swiss immigrant druggist who failed in business, walked out on his family and later killed himself. Another Swiss in the town intervened with General Jorge Ubico, the country's all-powerful ruler, to get the blond youth a scholarship at the national military school. Quickwitted and lithely muscular, Arbenz played polo and boxed while pulling down the highest grades in the academy's history. But when school triumphs were over, he was just another impoverished subaltern with no special prospects...
Next day Chaves, turned loose, went home and resigned. A temporary provisional President was named, but Stroessner emerged as the dominant new figure; reports from Asunción said that presidential elections' would be held in two months, and the general would be the only candidate. A dashing, blond-mustached artilleryman who is popular with his troops, Stroessner visited the U.S. last June as the guest of the Army. One result of his revolution was postponement of this week's scheduled good-will visit to Asunción by Argentina's President Juan Peron...
...years, here this big, blond sleepy-looking boy had one all-consuming interest: the life and times of G. David Schine. Almost all those who knew him find the present battle over special privileges in the Army perfectly consistent with their reconstructed picture of him. Says one, "Dave lived for himself and was intensely ambitions. He thought he was pretty special and thought he ought to get special favors. He may have had a code of ethics, but it was a code we knew nothing about...
...Blond, amiable Hans Werner Henze, who was drafted in the Wehrmacht at 16, rose to corporal, was dazed and worried at his reception. "It's simply a modern love story," he said. "Love and beauty are always expressed in pure dodecaphony [twelve-tone technique], but when I want to stress corruption and immorality the music becomes tonal. They say my opera shows evil, but how can one be evil when one is sincere?" He had one consolation: "At least," he said, "nobody fell asleep at my opera...