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...even once to present his views to Castro. Last week, his own patience gone, Bonsai finally forced a meeting with Castro by announcing that he was off to Washington next week for what the State Department called "more than routine consultations," i.e., to work out a stiff new U.S. policy on Cuba during a pointedly long absence from Havana...
...local parson, glooms away Shaw's most romantic scenes as if he were lost on a Brontë moor. In a climactic scene of comic derring-do, ex-Acrobat Lancaster makes heroic hash of a colonial court house and all the Redcoats in it. Otherwise he is as stiff and starchy as the clerical collar he eventually gives...
...cool and practiced performer. The nervous novice who got her first big break six years ago as the unknown vocalist on Percy Faith's recorded sleeper, Song from Moulin Rouge, has since given herself the polish of a pro. No longer does she settle for the stiff, tight-backed stance, the black, high-necked dresses and Peter Pan collars with which she turned her earliest act into a vague imitation of French Songstress Edith Piaf. Now she has a style very much her own. It is as versatile and varied as her songs...
...that likes to think of itself as Europe's citadel of unfettered free enterprise and trade liberalism, West Germany has been acting mighty odd. In the latest of a series of attempts to set prices and regulate trade, roly-poly Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard last week announced a stiff tax on fuel oil: $7.14 per metric ton (about $1 per bbl.). The punitive tax, which Erhard himself describes as a "sin" against his free-market theories, is designed to discourage the use of oil, thus ease Germany's steadily mounting coal surplus of 17 million tons...
...Swept by stiff ground winds, his chute fouled in a tree, and Pilot Rankin slammed headfirst into the tree trunk. He got up groggily, stiff, cold and numb, with his crash helmet knocked askew. He stumbled into a thicket, was for a moment almost hysterical. Then to himself: "You've come this far down for this? Let's get organized." He began walking a procedural-square search, found himself after two 90° turns on a country road. A dozen cars passed him as he stood on the road, wet, bloody, vomit-stained and haggard, and waving feebly...