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This is the season when gift books abound in the land-all expensive, all flossy, some gimmicky, some good. Among the good: The Discovery of the World, by Albert Bettex, a handsome history of exploration; The Lithographs of Chagall, with 237 fine reproductions; Hummingbirds, by Crawford H. Greenewalt, with superb photos and readable monographs by, of all people, the president of E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co. For givers under no compulsion to bedazzle, there are also plain books. Among the best recent ones...
...music would be the best Boston would hear this season, were it not for the fact that My Fair Lady itself is coming later. Memorable songs abound: "Follow Me," sung by Nimue to a failing Merlyn; "C'est Moi," trumpeted by a self-confident Lancelot; and the gloomy "Guinevere," rendered by the ensemble, dressed in subdued, monkish robes and standing in near-darkness...
...vital factor which at once works for stability and constantly threatens national unity and coherence is the division of the country into the three regions of West, East, and North, plus the separate Federal capital, Lagos. On the face of it difficulties abound in running a federation in which one of the Regions, the North, is far bigger in area and somewhat bigger in population than the other two federal units combined. The situation is complicated by the fact that the North, still centered about its strong Muslim emirates, has moved much more slowly into the modern world than have...
...also exists because the hard-working Shah tries to run the government all by himself. His few trusted aides are mostly officers of Iran's 200,000-man army, which he relies on to keep him in power and hence pampers. As a result, generals abound, and every other automobile in Teheran seems to bear the yellow and white plates that denote an army car. Among civilian officials. the Shah depends on retainers like Eghbal. who once told the Majlis: "I am not interested in your criticism and your complaints. You may say whatever you like...
...iron shorings erected by the British in 1935. Under the crumbling vaulting of the south transept, a scaffold has been put up to protect tourists from falling masonry. The facing of Christ's tomb itself is crumbling; large stones fall from the cornice of the cupola ceiling; leaks abound...