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...Djakarta diplomatic reception last year, Bung Karno (meaning Brother Karno) showed up in a beautifully tailored white uniform-barefoot. As he padded around the terraces and lawns, Sukarno explained that an electric storm was brewing and "I want to build up my energy. I absorb electric impulses from the ground." Some time ago, Bung was told by his dukun (medicine man and soothsayer) that his life would be in no danger so long as he avoided contact with steel. Sukarno thus decided against the kidney surgery advised by his medical specialists, instead relied for a cure on a team...
...murder attempt, it was organized by the fanatically anti-Sukarno Darul Islam sect, which promised that Bung would need all the good luck his magicians could bring him to avoid assassination in the future. Said one Darul Islam spokesman: "He is a stumbling block to progress, a symbol of failure...
...Taste of Honey (Continental) is a heady pint of bitter drawn from that always-sputtering bung of discontent, the British working class. In the last three years several interesting English movies and two magnificent ones (Room at the Top, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) have been tapped from the same source. This picture, based on a play by Shelagh Delaney, a Lancashire bus driver's daughter who was 18 when she wrote it, is as good as the best. In her first film script, touched up by Director Tony Richardson, the angry young ma'am displays dramatic drive...
...Richard Burton he wrote: "I hope it will be borozonic. I will be there on opening night, the old gentleman in the sixth row." Meanwhile, since White is a once and future tippler who plans to go off the wagon soon, the pubkeepers of Alderney were pulling out every bung in the Out Islands, awaiting the draught of gold from Broadway...
...picked up five honorary degrees, nine decorations and still another shapely airline hostess to go nightclubbing with: a 22-year-old Hawaiian beauty queen named Carol Ah You, who works for Great Lakes Air Lines and ac companied the President from San Fran cisco to Hawaii. Said Bung Karno, step ping off a charted Pan American DC-6B still staffed by favorite stewardess No. i, 25-year-old Joan Sweeney: "This has been much more successful than my earlier trips." But the old place was not much fun to come home to. Rebel and bandit fighting continued in Java, Sumatra...