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...check up on his ten stud farms and stables in France and Ireland, and for visits to his Paris mansion in the Bois de Boulogne, his manor house outside Dublin, his Riviera chateau and his villas in Normandy and Switzerland. His constant companion was a slim, tawny-haired French model known professionally as Bettina...
...track and basketball star and First Captain of Cadets. A full colonel at 29, he commanded field artillery in World War II (North Africa, Germany) and paratroops in Korea, taught at the Army War College, took over the 101st Airborne Division in 1958. The very model of a modern major general, he made a habit of jumping before his men, is known as a soldier whose mind and manner are ingrained with a general's supreme necessity, "the habit of command...
Mercader proved a model prisoner, was soon managing the prison radio shop and teaching illiterate prisoners to read and write. Some mysterious source kept him well supplied with money and under Mexico's lenient laws, he enjoyed such comforts as books, special food, carpets on his cell floor, and the weekly visits of his common-law wife, a nightclub entertainer named Rogelia Mendoza. Last week, some three months before his term expired, Mercader was hustled out of prison and aboard an airliner to Cuba, a procedure that enabled the Mexican government to get rid of an undesirable character...
...Lank Model Suzy Parker, 27, a redhead whose peculiar talent is to make bones look even more appealing than flesh, finally conceded that, after almost five years with Paris Reporter Pierre de la Salle (one child), it was all over. Some months ago, Suzy had given an interesting description of her marriage: "An American girl is against everything a Frenchman stands for. I've been told I can't cook, I can't sew, and I'm not fit to be a wife. If I speak French to him, he speaks English. If I speak English...
Today's go karts are direct descendants of the first model put together in 1956 by a crack Los Angeles mechanic named Art Ingels, 41, who set out to build a cheap, pocket-sized racer in the spare time from his job of working on the "big cars" that race at Indianapolis. Ingels' prototype, made from spare parts, was powered by a lawn-mower engine. The new models are often precision-built from equipment specifically designed for go karts, including tires, tiny high-speed (up to 16,000 r.p.m.) engines, steering gears and bodies turned out by some...