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...Argentine friends insisted on taking her to the night spots. At the gaudy Lido on the Champs Elysées, there was an embarrassment. Evita, dressed for the first time in black, picked at lobster, watched the floor show. At the show's end two men inside a camel's skin go through various antics under the spotlight; the climax comes when the camel's rear presents a bouquet to a woman spectator. Evita was selected for the honor. She was not amused, stalked out to the sniggers of other diners...
Heads low and rumps high, 100 cyclists threaded their way through the narrow passage that police maintained for them. Paris' Avenue des Champs Elysées was so jammed that it looked like Liberation Day. The first postwar revival of the Tour de France was under way. The 26-day-long, 2,900-mile bike race-a kind of Bunion Derby on wheels-is France's most avidly followed sporting event...
Doctor Bill. In Dar-es-Salaam, Tanganyika, a witch doctor went to the police station for help in collecting a bill from a client who "asked me to call a lion to kill his enemy. I did. The enemy is dead...
...renaissance. He was originally appointed to a lectureship here in 1939, but was mobilized in the French Army in the fall of that year. After the fall of France, Professor Seznec returned to the United States. He has served on the faculty since 1940. Professor Seznec is a Docteur-es-Lettres of the University of Paris, and has taught at several institutions in Europe and in the United States...
...visit by a nephew to an uncle? But last week, when Hashimite nephew Prince Abdul Illah, Regent of Iraq, went to call on Hashimite uncle King Abdullah in the dingy Trans-Jordan capital of Amman, many an Arab politician fidgeted. That the Regent's fellow traveler was Nuri Es-Said Pasha, perennial Prime Minister of Iraq (temporarily out of office), did not add to their comfort. Arabs suspected that a familiar bee was buzzing in the Iraqis' sedarah.* With British prompting, they thought, the Hashimite family was talking of uniting its holdings in a big Hashimite kingdom...