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...classic example still remembered with shudders on two continents was entitled "Fangs a Lot," an article about what had happened to Kwame Nkrumah's zoo "since the day he was ostrichized." That one actually appeared in the World section of April 8, 1966. Last week Associate Editor Spencer Davidson was faced with the news that Italian shops have been giving their customers candy instead of small change. Instantly Davidson saw the punny possibilities. He turned out a saga called-what else?-"The Italian Confection." The scenario involves an economics professor named Mel Marzi (played by Henry Fondant) who comes...
...Great," which consists of a recorder with cassettes and a notebook crammed with such power-releasing hints as "Develop a Positive Mental Attitude" and "Remember Everybody's Name." Complaints about the course, which costs up to $5,000 to complete, have brought legal actions in eight states. In Davidson County, Tenn., five "Dare to Be Great" salesmen were arrested for violating a law against pyramid selling. Since Turner is sole owner of his companies, he does not have to report his total sales volume, but with his usual extravagance, he estimates it as running into hundreds of millions...
...whether Lauren Bacall will lose her boy friend. There is also the consolation, not inconsiderable these days, that things might easily have been worse. For a while Tom O'Horgan was toying with the idea of a "vinyl-clad, hip Christ crucified on the handle bars of a Harley-Davidson...
Nevertheless, the nucleus of the group's members (John Ransom, Donald Davidson, "Red" Warren, and Tate) not only improved on their initial, poetic promise, but by 1930 had sketched a credo for the South, with the anthology I'll Take My Stand, urging agrarianism over industrialism and warning the South against becoming a replica of the North. "The culture of the soil," wrote Ransom, "is the best and most sensitive of vocations...
Great Special Cordon. Could even that much change have been accomplished by a roly-poly young playboy known to his critics as "Baskethead"? Hardly, and there are signs that Jean-Claude is not even enjoying the role of figurehead. He is not allowed to ride his Harley-Davidson and has to settle instead for joyrides in his sporty blue Toyota or flashy Lamborghini, usually escorted by a caravan of scowling secret policemen. One of the few pleasures of office was his acceptance recently of the Chinese Nationalist Order of the Propitious Clouds, Great Special Cordon grade, bestowed as part...