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Even the recent whereabouts of China's venerable Party Chairman Mao Tse-tung, 81, has been something of a mystery. For the past three months, Mao has been out of Peking and on the move, occasionally meeting foreigners-such as Danish Premier Poul Hartling and President Omar Bongo of Gabon. At the same time, rumors abound that Mao's wife, Chiang Ching, is aggressively accumulating power for herself while Premier Chou En-lai remains in a hospital, recovering from a heart ailment. Chou still meets with visiting dignitaries, but many of his duties have been taken over...
...wanted Harvard to sell its stock in Gulf Oil, whose payments for offshore drilling rights in Angola helped support Portuguese rule there. The students seized the occasion of the University-wide strike against the minint of North Vietnam, and occupied Massachusetts Hall. For a week the Yard resounded with bongo drums and abounded with picketers, but the occupiers finally left quietly and Harvard asked them to withdraw for a year. Portugual is leaving Angola now, but Harvard still has its stock in Gulf, and hasn't seen a large illegal demonstration since that...
Mongo Santamaria is at the Jazz Workshop until Sunday, and plays fast, rhythmic, big-band Afro-Cuban stuff centering around his own bongo and drum work...
Mongo Santamaria, next door at the Jazz Workshop all week, is a drum and bongo player from Cuba. He likes to go with a big, varied, high-energy band, using what's known in the trade as a heavy Afro-Cuban beat. He sounds like a sort of forefather to Santana, and definitely worth seeing...
...Dyan Cannon, 35, the zaftig star of Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice and The Last of Sheila, has decided that she can do as well in Las Vegas as in Hollywood. To tune up for her nightclub debut, she has been working out at home in Malibu Beach on bongo drums, conga drums, a guitar and a piano. Dyan was also belting out a few screams as part of her program of primal therapy. "I've spent the last three or four years worried more about what I feel than my career," she said. The screams also loosen...