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...last month, was $6,000-slightly more than Smith's fee for creating them. Not that Smith is hurting. His take from My Fair Lady alone reached $65,000, with royalties still acoming. And in any case, he has managed to move out of the old artists' commune to a bachelor pad of his own a few blocks away. It is a yellow brick Federal house, with a staff of three for the dishes and furnace. It also has 16 rooms and 16 fireplaces and, consequently, more Oliver Smith sets than even David Merrick could afford...
Amid all this ritualistic anti-Americanism came a surprising grace note. Meeting in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott, 13 former French colonies formed the Commune Africaine et Malgache and roundly condemned interference by anybody-notably including other Africans-in the internal affairs of other African states. Lest there be any doubt what they meant, they "solemnly affirmed the urgent necessity to bring peace to Congo-Leopoldville and aid to its legal government." It was the first kind African word for Moise Tshombe in a long time...
Then the growth explosions began. They're still going on. No other city in history so typifies the delusions, the momentum, the pace and direction of its time. Some residents feel its heartbeat and would never live elsewhere. Like Joyce and his Dublin they commune inextricably. Others (more like Kafka and his Prague) live perpetually estranged and threatened by their city. But almost no one is indifferent to New York...
...earth are lesser but formidable rival gods, including 1) the lecherous ones of Venus, who are dosing man with the Orgasm Drug to draw him into fatal orgies; 2) the totalitarian of the Crab Galaxy, who have ready giant ovens to bake humans into insectlike critters in a hivelike commune; and 3) the plain old hophead gods of Uranus, who have become radioactive themselves and are plotting to frizzle Earthmen with their own radioactivity...
...spotlight for himself and use it to blast Peking. Moscow asked permission to send President Mikoyan instead. Peking, hailing its "traditional" ties with a land few Chinese had even heard of, renamed one of its infamous state farms the "Marco Polo Bridge Sino-Rumanian Friendship People's Commune...