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...normally sleepy Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa was astir with feverish activity last week. Crowds of ragged citizens stood gaping as workmen rushed to install huge portraits of prominent Africans across from Haile Selassie's palace. Finishing touches were being put on a spanking new hotel. Mile after mile of 8-ft.-high corrugated iron fence was being put in place along main streets to hide the city's shabby slums...
London, already astir with preparations for the April wedding of Princess Alexandra of Kent, 26, to Angus Ogilvy, 34, second son of the Earl of Airlie, began to bubble in earnest as effervescent Alexandra announced that her chief bridesmaid for the ceremony in Westminster Abbey will be Princess Anne, 12. The couple's gift list, filed at Harrods of Knightsbridge as a handy guide for friends, indicates that they would welcome, among other things, bathroom scales, a portable barbecue, an onyx cigarette box, a toaster, Swedish decanters...
...nothing new in history. Over the centuries, it has been an explosive force. Both the American and French revolutions were brought on in part by taxpayer disaffection. But today's tax-revision tide is essentially different from the elemental discontent shared by all burdened taxpayers throughout history. What is astir in the U.S. is a sophisticated discontent?the nation has scrutinized itself and found a deep but correctable flaw...
Hungry Camels. Long dismissed as a desert backwater with scant hope of achieving self-sufficiency, Jordan is astir. Last week 200 enthusiastic students checked in at the new University of Jordan, the country's first. In Amman, the advance wave of a Christmas tide of 25,000 Holy Land tourists gaped at the freshly built Amman Grand Hotel, a ten-story luxury hotel of white stone...
...Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee. "Somebody has filled 'em full of baloney," grumped Holifield. "You try to talk to them and they just repeat what they've been told." With demonstrations and proclamations-and also with moderate voices and measured argument-students across the nation are astir with a new enthusiasm, and in the process the anemic boredom voguish in the '50s has disappeared...