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Taking voice lessons, she shed her Neapolitan dialect for a clearer Italian. She posed for more pictures-semi-covered with a bath towel, twirling an eel like a two-foot hot dog, being lassoed by Indians, having her brassière adjusted by a male volunteer, going to Mass, holding her skirt so high that the Italian police confiscated the entire edition of the magazine that ran the picture on its cover...
Died. May Bonfils Stanton, eightyish, elder daughter of the Denver Post's late Publisher Frederick G. Bonfils, who fell out with her father over her first marriage, lived much of her life in semi-seclusion in a 20-room marble copy of Marie Antoinette's Petit Trianon, and pursued a 30-year feud with her younger sister-and current Post boss-Helen Bonfils Davis with such intensity that the Post was not even informed of May's death, got scooped on the obituary by the rival Rocky Mountain News; after a long illness; in Denver...
Doub, Kolodney, and Pereira, were defeated in the semi-finals by wrestlers from Syracuse, Army, and Pitt. The remaining seven entries from Harvard lost in the preliminaries...
...melancholy fact of contemporary life is that almost anyone-any industrialized or semi-industrialized nation-can build a nuclear capability, including weapons of war. The basic technology is well understood, the engineering problems have been simplified, and the cost, so staggering in the early days, has been pared to the point where a bang can be bought for $500 million. Such advanced nations as Italy, Sweden, West Germany and Japan could obviously do it. So, too, say U.S. scientists, could Austria, Belgium, The Netherlands, Switzerland, Norway, India, Brazil, Argentina and Mexico...
...keep its competitors in the dark as to the Cardinal's appearance (Ford's typical saucer-size taillights, vestigial fins and probably a Thunderbird-like grille), Ford has been testing the car in semi-disguised form in Germany and Italy (see cut). Main Cardinal features: a front-wheel drive that will eliminate the troublesome "hump" caused by the drive shaft in most cars; a 70-h.p., V-4 engine that promises up to 35 miles per gallon of gas and rockets the little car along at more than 80 m.p.h. ; sculptured styling that will allow for more...