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...nations at the Organization of African Unity meeting in September, the whole affair approached disaster. Although such notable Afro-Asian lands as Cuba and Cyprus sent representatives to Winneba, the conference was pointedly ignored by all of Nkrumah's neighbors, and most of Africa's moderate states dis trust him. There was, in fact, only one redeeming event: to mark the conference opening Nkrumah unveiled a 75-ft. monument of himself. The work of a Polish sculptress, it is the biggest, solidest Nkrumah in the world...
...just relax--we're going to make America dis-integrate...
...stretching the legal scope of seamen's employment, the Supreme Court has constantly expanded the right to "maintenance and cure." That right theoretically ends with willful misconduct, such as the contraction of venereal dis ease, but the court has held that seamen are "in the service of the ship" even when falling-down drunk ashore. In one famous case, a tipsy sailor tumbled out of a dance-hall window in Naples and broke his leg. Another dived into a dry dock a mile away from his ship in Palermo and was permanently disabled. Both casualties sued their shipowners...
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF. This musical dis covers high theater and infectious gaiety in Aleichem's nostalgic story of Tevye and his five daughters in a Russian village...
...recent episode, the victim all too surely was brought to earth. "If you are going to show the truth," said Kingdom's Producer Don Meier, "you cannot avoid the proposition that tooth-and-claw battles take place every day in the wild kingdom. We would be doing a dis service to our viewers if we glossed that over." Realism has paid off. Wild Kingdom, carried on 185 NBC stations, stands a few points ahead of its nearest com petition, the American Football League game of the week. But filming wildlife in the veld is dicey business at best. Expeditions...