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...host of black African nations. Dramatizing its case against Morocco's supposedly "feudal" and "imperialist" regime, Algeria broadcast a parody of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, with Hassan in the title role and a supporting cast of Uncle Sam, King Farouk and David Ben-Gurion...
This difference reflects a larger discrepancy between the two versions. To show his state of congenital wretchedness, Voltaire makes Candide a bastard; Carbonnaux makes him an Alsatian. The countries Voltaire mentions only symbolize universal evils hike treachery and regicide. Carbonnaux specifically attacks Germany, Russia, Farouk, Argintina and imperialists. Voltaire describes imaginary places, like Eldorado; Carbonnaux invents nothing. Voltaire was inspired by the earthquake in Lisbon, a natural disaster; Carbonnaux announces that he was inspired by the bombing of Hiroshima...
Numismatists (from nomisma, Greek for anything sanctioned by usage, the current coin) include such diverse types as the late business wheeler-dealer Samuel Wolfson, ex-King Farouk (who sold his collection for about $3,000,000), Jayne Mansfield and Cardinal Spellman. But most collectors are children; these days they can even begin their numismatic careers at Woolworth's, which has installed coin departments' in several of its stores...
...three-hour speech-at ceremonies observing the eleventh anniversary of the Egyptian revolution that overthrew King Farouk-Nasser last week made the break with the Baathists official. Charging that most of the "ardent Syrians" who originally put their signatures to the agreement are now in Baath jails, Nasser announced that Egypt would no longer be a party to the agreement while Baath ruled in Syria...
...Princess Grace, and the Shah of Iran, but in her new book, The Celebrity Circus, Jet-Set Ringmaster Elsa Maxwell, 79, goes whip-cracking after party poopers and other peevish types: Author Cleveland Amory (''boring to look at, boring to listen to, boring to read"), ex-King Farouk ("surely one of the most repulsive creatures God ever made"), and Brigitte Bardot ("she's nude, she's horrible"). There are times, though, admits Elsa, when a girl's drop-dead list gets completely out of hand: "I've said so many nice things...