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...march by 500 of the dismissed employees. There was nothing else to do: the Indian government has sliced his annual privy purse from $667,000 to $266,000, and inheritance taxes have cut into his estate. But life does have a bright side. The new Nizam is an auto buff, and in the royal garage are 56 cars, only four of which work. "I inherited a scrapyard," the princely grease monkey says happily. "I have a lifetime's work before...
Prohibition Next. Leone would never be guilty of such a discrepancy. A cowboy buff since childhood, he has read 35 books on the subject, once spent a month researching the Old West in the Library of Congress. When he asked Eli Wallach to star in his latest Italian western, the actor cracked: "That must be something like a Hawaiian pizza." Wallach learned different when he arrived in Spain to shoot The Good, the Bad and the Ugly and found that Leone had meticulously reproduced settings and costumes from copies of old U.S. newspapers and photo albums. "He has a fantastic...
...take long for the patrol to discover that it had landed smack in the midst of a Viet Cong concentration. As skilled as Victor Charlie in the deadly blindman's buff of jungle warfare, Team Two soon realized that the enemy was following its every move. Each time Staff Sergeant Glide Brown Jr. halted his men, they could hear a couple of footfalls close behind-and then a bristling silence. As the jungle dusk deepened into blackness, Brown set up a defense perimeter and listened more closely. Above the keening of insects, geckos and night birds, he heard...
...tennis buff for the name of the best amateur player in the U.S., and the answer is likely to be Arthur Ashe, the lean, tall Virginian who is the first Negro ever to top the U.S. men's rankings. These days, though, the answer may not come so quickly. And any hesitance reflects the fact that Ashe, 23, has yet to win a major tournament. What's more, there is at least one other American around who seems to have Arthur's number: his old college roommate at U.C.L.A., Charles Pasarell...
...inquisition air about it-the talk was agonizingly tense." Kerr took the questioning as confirmation of the published rumors that the regents were getting set to fire him. On the last day of the regents' meeting, Kerr asked Board Chairman Theodore Meyer and Vice Chairman Dorothy ("Buff") Chandler to his office, told them: "If you've made up your mind to get rid of me, January is better than February." With the financial situation fluid, he later explained, "How could I sit at a table and negotiate when the people across the table had set a time bomb...