Word: beys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...third opera put on at Dallas was a repeat of Rossini's rarely performed romp, L'ltaliana in Algeri, introducing 23-year-old Spanish Mezzo-Soprano Teresa Berganza. The possessor of a silvery, dulcet voice, she acted the title role (an Italian girl imprisoned by a libidinous bey) with a kind of fresh, provincial charm. A onetime pianist, Mezzo Berganza has toured Europe in recitals but has had little operatic experience. The Dallas News's Critic John Rosenfield noted that L'ltaliana in Algeri had "ended up as a love affair between prima donna and patrons...
Veiled women shrilled their adulation, and students bore him on their shoulders through the streets when Habib Bourguiba returned from exile to lead Tunisia to independence. They cheered again when he deposed the old Bey of Tunis and had himself proclaimed President of the new republic. But in the last year there has been a change in the smiling, accessible Bourguiba. Since he moved into the President's palace, he has become increasingly autocratic, petulant and impatient of criticism. Ambassadors were instructed to bow three times on withdrawing from his presence-a custom imposed by the Bey whom Bourguiba...
...from the Cabinet. The final break came when Bourguiba brought to trial Millionaire Tahar ben Amar, a moderate nationalist who served as interim Premier before Bourguiba took over. Although Ben Amar was charged with tax evasion, the government used the trial to accuse him of "treason" in helping the Bey's family smuggle jewels from the country. Complained old Ben Amar: "I did not want to be Premier in the first place. I only accepted because Bourguiba pleaded with me to accept." The court's finding: no treasonable behavior, but it levied a $75,000 fine...
...space left on the Lake Como ferry at Gravedona, Italy, and a little blue Fiat slipped into it. But that left the vacationing Sheik of Kuwait in an awkward fix: his three-car caravan (including one blue Cadillac, one black Cadillac) was only two-thirds afloat. No smalltime bey-decker, His Highness Sir Abdullah as Salim as Sabah quickly offered the ferryboat captain $16 to unload the latecomer and make room for the royal limousine. The Milanese tourist in the Fiat bid $32 to preserve the status quo. The Sheik bid $160. The Italian raised him $160, promised the captain...
Brothers & Arms. Elected President after deposing the old Bey of Tunis last summer, Bourguiba moved into a lavish, state-owned seaside villa in Carthage, told aides to take care of Tunisia's other problems, and turned his own attention to winning peace in Algeria. His immediate purpose is to get arms enough to stop French forces from chasing rebels across his Algerian frontier under the doctrine of "hot pursuit." To get them he has not hesitated to use Communist or Egyptian arms offers to underscore his independence of the French over the Algerian fight...