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...adjoining colony of French Guinea, people feel differently. In the capital city of Conakry, a once sleepy banana port that is now studded with French-built skyscrapers, Premier Sekou Touré thundered a loud "No!" Cried Sekou Touré: "We will vote no to a community which is just the French Union rebaptized, that is to say, old merchandise with a new ticket. Beginning Sept. 29, we will be an independent country. We will take entire and total responsibility for our affairs...
...week long monster C124 and C-130 transports, the white star of the U.S. Air Force emblazoned on their flanks, lumbered down onto Formosan airfields. Tent cities sprang up along roadsides. Crated jet engines were stacked in banana groves; laborers toiled night and day to extend hangars left behind by the Japanese in World War II. The U.S. was staging the biggest military buildup since the Korean...
...caricature cruel? Many a reader of Paris' left-wing daily Combat (circ. 58,000) complains that Staff Cartoonist Jean Pinatel's banana-nosed version of Premier Charles de Gaulle is a clear case of proboscis profaned. Last week Pinatel snapped back at his critics. Beside an amiable, big-nosed De Gaulle, Pinatel drew an evil-eyed, small-nosed De Gaulle, then offered his defense...
Among the rich racketeers who commute to their showplaces in the western Chicago suburb of River Forest (pop. 12,500), none lives in higher style than Anthony Joseph Accardo, 52, top banana in the crime syndicate founded by the late Al ("Scarface") Capone. Tough Accardo's $200,000 stone and concrete mansion, designed like a combination pleasure dome and pillbox, offers various conveniences: an indoor swimming pool, two bowling alleys, a pipe organ, a roof garden where strolling violinists play dinnertime waltzes, vast reception rooms, six master bedrooms, baths where the water flows from gold faucets, and-a special...
...were a happy choice. They are only 1/12 in. long, so their board bill is low. They produce new generations in about two weeks, multiplying rapidly in cream bottles stoppered with wads of gauze. They are easily come by; when a geneticist wants wild "genotype" flies, he puts a banana on the windowsill, and the genotypes come unbidden...