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...Marxist revolution deposed Ethiopian Emperor Haile Selassie, who had more or less looked out for the Falashas. Declaring himself a direct descendant of Solomon. Selassie used the existence of Ethiopian Jews to legitimate his claim. But the Marxists who deposed him had no such interest in protecting the Falashas...
...leap?) Already proved successful in Los Angeles, Albuquerque, Detroit and Windsor, Ont. (Canadian graffiti?), the "spray-on, wipe-off' Gobbler is right now being tested on the New York City subways, the end of the line. If it works there, its Australian inventor, Norman Shuttleworth, will be the Emperor of Gotham. No fame will equal his. His name will appear on every wall in the city. And then, quickly and easily, it will be gone...
BORN. To Alexander Karageorgevitch, 36, Washington, D.C., insurance executive and son of the late King Peter II, last monarch of Yugoslavia, and Maria da Gloria, 35, great-great-granddaughter of Pedro II, Brazil's last Emperor: twin sons, their second and third children; in Falls Church, Va. Names: Philip and Alexander...
...Indecent Obsession, McCullough (1 last week) 2. Cujo, King (2) 3. Noble House, Clavell (4) 4. The Hotel New Hampshire, Irving (3) 5. Masquerade, Williams 6. No Time for Tears, Freeman (5) 7. Remembrance, Steel (6) 8. Gorky Park, Smith 9. God Emperor of Dune, Herbert 10. The Cardinal Sins, Greeley...
...Germans have a deep national habit of earnest exaggeration. The Japanese, of course, practice a style of negative exageration-self-abnegation so elaborate as to be a kind of overstatement. On Aug. 15, 1945, Emperor Hirohito observed in the imperial announcement of Japan's surrender: "The war situation has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." The British exaggerate in the same direction, indulging in what grammarians call meiosis-understatement. It was an American (born in Wales), however, Henry Stanley, who produced the wonderfully meiotic: "Dr. Livingstone, I presume...