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...Portugal's Congo, where every native has had his "Santu" or Christian name since the 16th Century, Dom Pedro V was once a monarch as absolute in his way as Ethiopia's Haile Selassie. A Portuguese army had helped enthrone him, and for 30 years they let him reign supreme over his subjects. Then in 1884 Europe began its mad scramble for Africa. Portugal's empire builders sent out their own resident governor, and Pedro and all his kind became mere pensioners. Last week, with 700 other pilgrims from Portugal's now tatterdemalion empire, another King...
...held the King's attention until both tusks were pointed toward him. Then King Pedro turned, unaware of the averted crisis, and indicated his gifts, now in perfect order. The Pope threw up his hands in amazement. "How long?" he asked. "The longest," answered the King of the Congo solemnly. Then he hurried back to take his humble place behind the Portuguese Ambassador...
Africa's underslung, café-au-lait Basenjis ("bush things") are no exception. For generations they have tracked game for chiefs in the Belgian Congo, emitting only an occasional soft "groo," plaintively yodeling during the mating season, but never barking. Last week, however, in London's Trinity Hall, at the annual show of the British Basenji Club, a barkless Basenji barked. It was the end of 6,000 years of canine taciturnity. "My breath simply went," gasped Acting Club Secretary Veronica Tudor Williams. "Quite a bombshell," muttered the permanent secretary...
Bright spots remained. Output of electrical energy had hit an alltime high, glass production again was normal. Belgium's rich Congo Colony piled up lush foreign exchange by exporting annually up to 5 billion francs' worth of copper, palm oil, diamonds and secret quantities of uranium ore (of which Belgians believe the Congo contains half the world's known supply...
...candy. But his infatuation for Cléo caused as big a buzz as Ludwig of Bavaria's fling with Lola Montez. Proletarians denounced it in dingy bistros, and bourgeois canvassed it dreamily on the conjugal couch. Cléo became almost as scandalous as conditions in the Congo rubber jungles, which Leopold had also bequeathed his country. The king's enemies, of whom he had many, called him "Cléopold." L'affaire Cléo enlivened the otherwise boring business of Cabinet meetings...