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People, Jul. 5, 1971

Featuring THE BEAUTIFUL BURTONS in their DEATH-DARING DEFIANCE of the FLASHING KNIVES! First Time Under the Big Top! The way Elizabeth and Richard Burton were telling it in London last week, they dropped in one night recently at a little local circus near their Mexican vacation house in Puerto Vallarta. Suddenly one of the performers was saying things in Spanish and smiling at Elizabeth, so she stepped graciously into the ring, thinking she was going to be introduced. "The next thing I knew, he was throwing daggers at her," said Richard. "What we didn't...

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