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Africa's prophets of revolution have come on hard times. They once dreamed of bringing the whole continent under the leftist banner through subversion, sloganeering and bullying, but it is becoming apparent that a growing majority of moderate African states want no part of their plans. Only a fortnight ago, the Organization of African Unity, the league they had hoped to dominate, rejected the radicals' demands for a hearing for the Congolese rebels, and last month a bloc of 13 former French colonies met in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott to give their official support to the legitimate...
What began a fortnight ago as a Senate investigation of crooks in banking turned last week into a disquieting exposure of the Government's own performance at supervising banks. It proved a tough week for the man who charters and monitors national banks, Comptroller of the Currency James J. Saxon, long one of Washington's most controversial figures...
...unstinting support of the new U.S. firmness in Viet Nam; 48 left-wing Laborites led by M.P. Sidney Silverman have introduced a motion in the House declaring that Britain is unable to support the "U.S. war" in Viet Nam. The frailty of Labor's margin was plainly illustrated fortnight ago by a surprise Tory victory in the House on two votes that were not quite important enough to bring the government down. And though the Gallup polls show Wilson's own personal popularity rising, that of the Labor Party is tailing off as the Conservatives make a comeback...
...nearly 6,000,000, rising more rapidly than that of any other major U.S. museum. Over the Washington's Birthday weekend, the Met counted a record of 59,099 admissions during Sunday's four-hour visiting period. It was a record for only a fortnight; two weeks later, more than 62,000 came. The Met even plans to widen its front steps...
...home in all genres and periods-from the romantic realism of his squalid bed-sitter in A Taste of Honey to the sculptural expressionism of his revolving turntable for Dylan. He is also uniquely fast (he splashed out 250 watercolor sketches for Hollywood's Oklahoma! in a fortnight), prodigiously productive (eight Broadway openings this season and a lifetime score of some 250 shows), and justly celebrated, with more Tony awards-six-than any other Broadway designer...