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Italy's Nino Benvenuti, 29, figured to stay out of scraps for a while after polishing off Emile Griffith last month to recapture the world middleweight title. Then along came a wicked one-two punch smack in la panda. Through her lawyers, Nadia Bertorello, 20, blonde, bosomy, and a model back home in Bologna, charged that 1) Nino is the fiero padre of the baby she expects in August, and 2) Nino's manager, Bruno Amaduzzi, had foisted a cover-up by snipping out of her passport the visa proving that she had traveled to the U.S. with Nino last October. "I am no longer interested in Nino as a man," she said, "only as the one who should guarantee some future for our child." Nino denied the paternity, if not the relationship. Said his wife Giuliana, when asked if she could forgive his escapade: "An escapade, yes—a serious affair, no."
The children's crusade for Senator Eugene McCarthy marches on. Ann Hart, 20, daughter of Michigan's Senator Philip, started it all, and now the ranks are swelling with dozens of notable offspring. Latest to join the youthful fold: Edmund G. Brown Jr., 29, son of California's former Governor Pat; William Yorty, 21, son of Los Angeles' Mayor Sam; James Roosevelt Jr., F.D.R.'s grandson; Harold Ickes Jr., 28, son of the New Dealer; Randy Paar, 17, Jack's daughter; Erica Heller, teen-age daughter of Novelist Joseph; Hal Wiley, grandson of Wisconsin's late Senator Alexander; Jamie Bernstein, 15, daughter of the New York Philharmonic's Leonard; and Joshua Leinsdorf, 22, son of the Boston Symphony's conductor Erich.
Stagehands hustled up coffee and a soft chair, directors fell over one another congratulating him on his poise, even actors split their sides yukking it up at his every quip. And why not? For the bashful newcomer on the movie set was that grizzled czar of the gridiron, peerless coach of the National Football League's champion Green Bay Packers, Vince Lombard!, 54, on hand for a cameo appearance in the United Artists movie version of George Plimpton's Paper Lion. Vinnie, as he was called by the movie folk, breezed through his scene with Actor Alan Alda, who plays Plimpton, and proved that there is a good bit of ham left in the old Packer. The script called for him to turn down Plimpton's request to try out for the Packers with a curt "No." But Lombardi had a different idea. "Have you tried the A.F.L.?" he asked sweetly.