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Biggest and most influential political movement in Black Africa is the Rassemblement Démocratique Africain, led by stocky, black-skinned Félix Houphouet-Boigny (TIME, Feb. 13, 1956), an Ivory Coast chieftain who was once ready to fight for independence, but now calls for "self-government within the French Union." A year ago, when Socialist Guy Mollet was named Premier of France, 51-year-old Félix Houphouet-Boigny became the first West African ever to sit in a French Cabinet. Ever since, Houphouet-Boigny and Mollet's Minister of France Overseas, 46-year-old Gaston...
...Ivory Coast. As long as he stuck to spells, charms and incantations, he was all right. His troubles started when he began to occupy himself with such potent magic as ballot boxes and election campaigns. He took the Christian name Victor, joined the fellow-traveling Rassemblement Democratique Africain, was elected to the French Senate. A small, thin, worried-looking man, the ex-witch doctor did not take to lighthearted Paris, made only a few appearances there, always seemed to his colleagues in the Senate to be thinking of home. Home he went. On some political business on the Ivory Coast...
...season in its entire history, the Harvard Glee Club, assisted by the Radcliffe Choral Society and the Pierian Sodality, will give the third and last concert of its series of Sanders Theatre presentations on Thursday, May 27, at 8 o'clock. Last fall, with the assistance of Hazel L'Africain, soloist, the series was inaugurated with a notable concert, which was followed a few weeks ago by an equally well received concert with Harrison Kellar, violinist...
Under the leadership of Dr. A. T. Davison '06 the chorus will offer the following numbers, with Miss Hazel L'Africain of the American String Quartet as soloist: To God on High, Decious Adoramus Te, Palestrina Morning Hymn, Krug 'Cello Solo, Miss L'Africain Bedouin Love Song, Foote In Picardi, Osgood Give a Rouse, Bantock Serenade, Borodine 'Cello Solo, Miss L'Africain My Bonnie Lass, Morley Suabian Folk Song, Brahms Now Let Every Tongue, Bach...
...uniqueness of these presentations should attract the College. No other Glee Club in the country has ever attempted to give in concert the type of music which will be offered at this series. The appearance of Hazel L'Africain, solo 'cellist of the American String Quartet, at the first concert on December 4 will add interest...