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Marianne Faithfull, 23, British singer-actress and daughter of Baroness Erisso of Austria, discovered how costly mink can be. The onetime girl friend of the Rolling Stones' Mick Jogger was caught last Christmas at London's Heathrow Airport trying to smuggle a $2,000 black mink coat in from Rome. In magistrates' court last week, the judge added $1,200 to the price...
...damming the Congo River is under way at last. Its first stage, a 150-megawatt dam, will be finished by 1972. Even the interior city of Kisangani, formerly Stanleyville, which suffered terrible damage during the Simba rebellion of 1964-65, is returning to life. The town glitters with a coat of fresh paint in honor of a visit by Belgium's King Baudouin, who arrived in the Congo for the anniversary...
...first night in New York, I couldn't sleep in the creaky beds at the YMCA, so I woke up at six in the morning. I put on my yellow shirt, sport coat and tie, and walked down 42nd Street. Times Square was the only part of New York I had heard about. My father was born in Brooklyn, near Myrtle Avenue, and from him my brother and I learned about the push carts, the subways, and the City: "As you walk up Broadway, it's Washington Square, Union Square, Herald Square, then Times Square, boys...
...Club. He was sleeping in the gutter. A little water passed under his body to the drain at his feet. He didn't so much have a beard as straight white course hairs growing all over his face and head. He was wrapped in a super-large suit coat that didn't match his tattered pants. His stomach was enormous and there were red sores on his ankles. And two kids were sitting in a doorway with a blanket, looking...
...components of "the big lie." Pusey says we call Harvard hopelessly bigoted. This, as it intends, summons images of Birmingham. Alabama, and Sheriff Bull Conner spitting juice from his "Mail Pouch" chewing tobacco. And of course Pusey is right, Harvard does not look like that. It wears a coat and tie, and on a bread-based scale, is less reprehensible than some other forces in society. But racism is practiced here, in its liberal dress. A prime example is the issue of the painter's helpers...