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...sunny summer day back in 1936. handsome Francesco Ghizzoni stood placidly waiting for customers behind his refreshment stand near the shores of the Po River. Suddenly, as a curvy blonde entered the water for a dip, Francesco, 25, was swept away by love. Her name was Angela Mondini; she was only 16, and, like Francesco, she came from Cremona. Almost immediately, Francesco proposed marriage. Coldly, Angela refused. "He's not my type.'' she told friends. "She's playing hard to get," Francesco replied...
...Playhouse in California-and U Nu is still pounding away at the same theme: the evil of Communism and how to combat it. The Wages of Sin will be given its U.S. première on the East Carolina campus this week, with a Louisianaborn history professor playing U Po Lone, a Burmese government minister who is corrupted by the Communists...
When the curtain goes up, U Po Lone is dallying with his mistress in a Rangoon pad. Before the curtain falls, he has been shot. His sad story is shot through with black-marketeering, opium smoking, booze, bribes, and prostitution...
...drink with a man," snarls the high-fashion New Orleans harlot (Capucine) to the lesbian madam (Barbara Stanwyck), "not with you!" The madam gasps: "You're being perverse!" She doesn't know the half of it. Suddenly the shameless hussy runs off to marry a "po' buckra" boy (Laurence Harvey) from the backblocks of Texas who can't possibly provide as nice a house as the one she has been living in. Indignant, the madam collects her bullyboys and gives chase. The pigeon refuses to fly back to the coop. Bang! Dead pigeon...
...Chinese, they were growing even more outspoken against Khrushchev; in Hong Kong the pro-Communist newspaper Ching Po found him even worse than Chiang Kaishek: "He decks himself out in satellites, spaceships and supernuclear bombs. He resorts to pinning the 'personality cult' label on the two leaders [Stalin and Hoxha], thereby subjecting himself to ridicule by the Western bloc...