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...Fanned. Though the jury acquitted him on three other counts, it found that in two cases he "knowingly aided prostitutes in the plying of their trade" and "received payment for such assistance out of their earnings." Thus the jurors had also decided that, by definition, leggy, red-maned Christine Keeler, 21, and blonde, baby-faced Mandy Rice-Davies, 18, were prostitutes.* If either was dismayed at being formally branded a whore, neither showed it. At the London premiere of Cleopatra and an otherwise exclusive buffet supper afterward, Mandy in a brief blue gown that was designed by herself (and looked...
...American business draws its financial sustenance. The Street has meant profit for many investors and grief for some, and since World War II has raised $43 billion for the expansion and modernization of U.S. industry. Any man can buy a piece of what Wall Street offers with a down payment of as little as $2, but the men who really run the Street, says the Securities and Exchange Commission, are a small and clubby circle of insiders...
Ward told her it was all right for a girl to sleep with a man for money as long as she did not get the "prostitute mentality." Though payment for services ranged up to $140, half of which usually went to Ward, she said: "I have never considered myself a call girl or prostitute." Sometimes when Ward "complained about having no money," Christine testified, she would simply say: "I'll go see Jim." He was a wealthy businessman, who had paid her "hundreds of pounds," but the name might well have been Jack. Profumo also gave her money...
...ashore in Cuba unnoticed. In Miami, Manuel Antonio de Varona, 54, coordinator of the Revolutionary Council, agreed that perhaps infiltration was a better word than invasion. And in Philadelphia, the freighter Maximus, bound for Havana, loaded 5,000 tons of supplies, valued at $1,750,000, the last payment to Castro for the $53 million ransom release of 1.113 Bay of Pigs prisoners...
...general situation at the moment is one of security. Imperialism has elements of judgment so as not to harbor the least doubt as to what a military invasion of Cuba would mean." Such being the case, Castro expressed "our disposition to normalize relations."- He was willing to talk about payment for seized U.S. property, and about selling sugar to the U.S. again. But not on condition that Cuba break away from the Soviet Union. "We are the victors. We can wait indefinitely...