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When Eric learns that Jurgens' officially deceased first wife Ophélie (Francoise Hardy) is still-alive and sequestered in the castle, the family decides to dispose of him forthwith. During one eventful night, Eric survives attempts to poison him, gas him, drug him and freeze him to death...
...harden his point, Blough went on to announce that U.S. Steel would forthwith trim 12% to 14% from the prices of some types of wire and rods. Reason: stiff competition from cut-price European producers, whose steel shipments to the U.S. will exceed 6,000,000 tons this year...
...explanation was that Asahi Shimbun's Moscow correspondent, Takeo Kuba, had imperfectly translated Russian cablese KHRUSHCHEV ZAKONCHIL (has ended it), with which Tass had wound up its transmission of a Khrushchev speech. According to this theory, Kuba misread it as KHRUSHCHEV SKONCHALSIA (Khrushchev dead) and cabled the news forthwith. However, at week's end this explanation was exploded by a report from a German TV network that its Hamburg office had received a similar bogus message, save that it was signed "Britinform," cablese for the British Information Service in Bonn...
President Johnson was almost as enthusiastic, and forthwith sent his "warmest good wishes" to the new President, Paschoal Ranieri Mazzilli. In Peru, Lima's La Prensa called the revolution a "healthy action"; in Argentina, former President Pedro Aramburu said that "democracy has won out." But despite all the enthusiasm, getting rid of Goulart was only a first and far-from-conclusive step. He had mismanaged Brazil so badly that his downfall became inevitable, but the fruits of that mismanagement remain for his successors to cope with...
...white tie or in black tie. But I do want them to come in a tie." Still, the Met without standees is like Yankee Stadium without bleacherites. So only one performance after imposing his ban, Bing caved in, said the noisy, tieless, bossy, hard-core opera buffs could return forthwith...