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...mistress of a young artist (Franco Nero), Don Lope shouts in misery, "I prefer tragedy to ridicule . . ." The girl awards him both. Her flight with the artist is ended by a disease that costs her a leg. Convalescing in the house of her for mer guardian, Tristana hears Lope, stricken with a heart attack, rattling in his bed. She starts to call a doctor, then lowers the phone to its cradle...
...miles away in the Alban hills, and the cardinals were eager to show their esteem for the heir apparent. Just as the Mass was about to begin, the doors of the chapel swung open and Urban VIII, clad in full pontifical robes, strode in. Cardinal Zacchia abruptly collapsed, stricken with a heart attack. Wrote Urban later: the air at Castel Gandolfo had been "the instrument that God used to preserve my life...
...which ran 28% last year and is presently climbing at the rate of more than 2% per month. More than half of Chile's families subsist on less than $30 a month. The cities are pockmarked with ugly slums, and life in the countryside remains burdensome and poverty-stricken for the vast majority of peasants...
Authorities in other countries, however, have declined officially to recognize the existence-or the dangers-of the disease. Iran and Iraq stopped all reports about their cholera epidemics after 1964, when the Soviet Union refused to accept shipments of citrus fruits and other goods from cholera-stricken Iran. Both countries now refer only to outbreaks of misleadingly labeled "summer diarrhea." Egyptian authorities have been equally ostrichlike. Fearful of disrupting their country's ailing tourist industry, they have refused to restrict travel and euphemistically describe as "summer disease" what one World Health Organization official estimates to be 3,000 current...
...B.A.S.F., an American subsidiary of a large German chemical company, has suspended plans to build a $200 million plastics and dye complex in poverty-stricken Beaufort County, S.C., until it determines just how expensive Government-ordered pollution controls will...