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Died. Peter Lorre, 59, a squat, morose Hungarian actor with a heart of ghoul, who first chilled spines as the psychopathic child killer in the German classic M, moved to Hollywood in 1934 to take such varied roles as Mr. Moto and a passport racketeer in Casablanca, in more than 80 movies was chiefly famed for his bug-eyed, nasal-voiced mastery of menace and the macabre; of a stroke; in Hollywood...
...special meeting of the Organization for African Unity. This fledgling Pan-African grouping of 33 states was created last May at Addis Ababa, where Emperor Haile Selassie sponsored the latest moves toward continental unity. The O.A.U. is an amalgam of two earlier unity attempts that had failed (the Casablanca Pact and the Monrovia Group), and with its insistence on African solutions to African problems, it listened with sympathy to Nyerere's story, effectively absolved him of his sin. Shaken but still alive, Julius Nyerere set out to rebuild his army and his popularity...
...General de Gaulle, from the time of he Casablanca Conference in 1943, lost all interest in the war and, calculating hat victory was certain, "concentrated upon restoring France as a great power." He shared with Stalin the knowledge that he could "exact greater concessions in the midst of total...
...worth a few points among Harvard's Bogart-film lovers to know that Dooley Wilson played the piano player in Casablanca. Is there a bonus for knowing that Dooley Wilson couldn't really play...
...Well, in a way. Dooley could play, but didn't in Casablanca. The ghost player was Elliott Carpenter...