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...Katangese, who defied world opinion for weeks in hanging onto Lumumba, finished the affair with a flourish. "I will speak frankly," said Katanga Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo. "If people accuse us of killing Lumumba, I will reply: 'Prove...
...after less than four years, the beats have all but vanished, leaving behind a curious footnote to the nation's night life: about the only durable mark that the beatniks made on American culture is the coffeehouses that flourish in a dozen cities-and the coffeehouses themselves have been largely responsible for the disappearance of the beats. With cover charges and minimums, they now discriminate actively against the vestigial beards...
This ground was more than usually fertile for Histoplasma, Dr. Dodge found, because in the late summer and early fall, starlings used the treetops as a dormitory. Their droppings, which covered the ground, have the right chemical composition and acidity for Histoplasma to flourish. In cities starlings usually roost in buildings, but even where they stay in trees the terrain underneath is generally lawn or pavement; Milan just happened to offer the right circumstances. To make Milan's school parking lot and playground inhospitable to Histoplasma, the town will blacktop them as soon as the frost...
...press for it far more strongly than we have yet done. The Russians believe Communism will triumph without world war, and so in recent years have come to consider disarmament seriously. We should not have so little confidence in the ability of a free society to exist and flourish beside the Soviet Union as to refuse disarmament the very strenuous efforts it deserves...
...brings out the girls-girls dressed in balloons, girls dressed in sequins, girls in high heels clicking along the stage rim, nearly stepping on the ring-siders' elbows. After the updated burlesque comedians, the rubber-legged clown, the croaky grand-opera sextet, the long evening ends with a flourish-figure skaters on a rink the size of the late Serge Rubinstein's bed. Like New York night life itself, all this looks better from a distance. From the back of the huge room, the show seems gay and sexy, but when seen close up, the picture dissolves into...