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...prominent center of early Christian scholarship. The great 4th century church father, St. Augustine, was bishop of Hippo in what is now Tunisia. Yet North African Christianity was virtually erased by the massive Moslem invasions that swept across the northern part of the continent in the 7th and 8th centuries; only the churches of Ethiopia and Egypt survived. Even today, Islam remains the largest religion in Africa, claiming almost one-third of the continent's 300 million people...
...rushed to the box office to make the show's 41 previews sellouts. They verified the rumor. Oh! Calcutta! is the nudest show outside a nudist camp. Though the top price on the scale is $7.50 for an orchestra seat, scalpers have collected $20 and more. On July 8th the box-office price goes to $15, and the following month to $25. That will make Oh! Calcutta! the highest-priced show on or off Broadway. With more than $103,000 in advance sales already made, Hillard Elkins is living the producer's dream-which is not to give...
...previous elections, lost its sole distinction in the seventh by voting 54% in favor of the referendum?almost the mirror opposite of France's 53% rejection. The city of Paris turned down the referendum 56% to 44%, and it could not win a majority even in the chic 7th, 8th and 16th arrondissements, the silk-stocking districts of Paris, and normally solid Gaullist. Women voters, who have made up another Gaullist bastion, gave 10% less than the 70% they mustered in 1962. Finally, and perhaps decisively, the young vote, which has recently eluded De Gaulle, was out in force: some...
...Governs the sex organs) Mars, Pluto-rulers of the 8th house...
...from India in 1927 with two main possessions: $75 in cash and a trunkful of objets d'art and Oriental miniatures. The son of a Bombay art dealer and a descendant of a long line of Parsis (a sect that left Persia in about the 8th century and settled in India), Heeramaneck quickly found a ready market in America. From that day forward, his policy became, as his wife Alice puts it, to "buy five, sell four and keep the best for himself...