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Like its Washington counterpart, Manila's annual National Press Club Gridiron show is enlivened by roasting the politicians in the audience. But never before had Manila's jesting correspondents gone so far in impertinence. The curtain rose on a scratching, underwear-clad figure representing President Carlos Garcia during last year's election campaign. A Chinese constituent, loaded down with pesos, came onstage and said he was "velly happy that good fliend Garcia running for Plesident." Garcia orotundly protested that he never took bribes. The Chinese was just about to leave in confusion when, from backstage, a figure...
Also in the tour repertory: The Partisans, an episode in the lives of a group of World War II guerrilla fighters, in which the black-clad dancers move in startling imitation of galloping horsemen to the music of a Georgian Lezghinka; Spring Dances from the Ukrainian Suite, which opens with a slow, weaving dance evocation of the melancholy a Ukrainian girl feels when her lover leaves for the front, ends with a bravura blaze of tremendous Gopak leaps as the lover returns triumphant to the village. In contrast with scenes more or less mirroring Soviet life, there are evocations...
Among the new finds at Ife (pronounced Ee-fay), where antiquarians have been digging up terra cotta fragments for years, were two bronzes (see cuts) that rank as masterpieces: ¶ A 19-in. statue of an Oni king in full regalia. Standing barefoot, clad in skirt, an amulet centered on his beaded hat, the Oni in bronze wears a bib of beads (presumably coral), a knee-length strand of larger beads (probably carnelian or agate), bead anklets, and wristlets. In his right hand he clutches a mace, in his left a ram's horn, the symbol of authority. Slightly...
...three Amish youngsters were still at large, and their parents were still in jail. Amish Bishop Samuel Swartzentruber said they would stay there "if it is God's will. We are not giving in." Some non-Amish Wayne County residents sympathized with the industrious, black-clad farmers, with whom they get along well, if distantly. But most of them agree that not even religion should be allowed to cut off children from the opportunity to become businessmen, doctors, lawyers or musicians, if they want to, instead of farmers. Prospect for the next school year: more trouble for Ohio...
...recorded radio beat of tom-toms throbbed through the city of Accra (pop. 200,000). Barelegged, toga-clad Ghanaians danced down to the beach for a mass picnic, snaked through the streets in roaring torchlight procession, cheered the unveiling of a larger-than-lifesize statue of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, 48, "Founder of the Nation...