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...Three months after V-E Day, Brooke, then a captain waiting to be shipped out of Italy, visited Viareggio, a resort on the Ligurian Sea. On the beach, he struck up a conversation with Remigia Ferrari-Scacco, the fetching daughter of a prosperous Genoese paper merchant. Recalls Remigia: "I see him five times in Italy. He come in my house. He meet my parents. He say he in love with me and he want me to marry." She say no. However, after returning home and joining a couple of Army buddies at Boston University Law School, he began trading...
...liking for the common touch. Kosygin addressed both Houses of Parliament in the opulently decorated Royal Gallery of the Lords, proposing a "treaty of friendship, cooperation and nonaggression" with Britain. On a side trip to Scotland, he saw a soccer match at Kilmarnock, dined at the stylish golf resort of Troon. Returning to London, he was scheduled to meet the Tory shadow Cabinet of Ted Heath in that archbastion of the capitalist system, the Carlton Club...
Weird and tragic turns of fate marked the fire's progress. Two men climbed a gum tree to escape deceptively low flames in the tinder-dry grass; the resinous tree erupted like a match, gluing their bodies to its trunk. In the coastal resort of Snug, villagers ran into the sea and watched neck deep as their town disappeared. An elderly man and his wife ran for their lives as the river of flame roared toward their house; the fire changed its course, and their bodies were found 100 yards from their untouched home. When the flames neared...
...stabilize the nation's finances, and the result has been a reform in tax collection, wiser government spending and a mild austerity program that has allowed him to build a modest foreign currency reserve. Realizing the value of the tourist dollar, he has promoted a series of resort hotels from Tangier to Marrakesh, turned Morocco into the haunting ground of such jet-set types as Truman Capote and Princess Lee Radziwill. Last year 700,000 tourists-nearly twice as many as in 1965-converged on Morocco...
...stand chariot-style to cushion the bumps, come quickly, although taking off from a 6-ft.-high ski jump at full speed is strictly for the experts (last week at Lancaster, Bob Fortin set an unofficial world's jumping record of 67 ft. 7 in.). Says Maine Resort Owner Alan Ordway, who compares the thrills of snowmobiling to riding a good thermal in a glider: "They've set everybody's age back 20 years; a guy of 60 figures that he's got 20 good years left if he can ride one of these things...