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...Someone makes a party speech--for the one party, the Parti Democratique de Cote d'Ivoire--the sous-prefet shows off his glittering best uniform, party faithfuls collect medals, Adzope's wheezing brass band coughs the national anthem, and people go wild dancing in the streets. It's a gala...
...President were crammed into a hastily scrubbed brothel armed with cans of bug repellent. But next morning Humphrey was cheerily wishing all comers a hearty New Year as his feet sank into melting tar and Liberia's tatterdemalion army of 4,500 men and girls shambled past in gala formation...
Teachers and other government workers, who had anticipated that their salary cuts could be restored with French assistance, soon went out on strike. High society in Cotonou boycotted a gala charity ball thrown by Soglo's wife, who had imported two foreign orchestras for the occasion. On one of the city's several sidewalks, someone hastily scribbled the message: "It's time to change the government." Soglo blithely ignored his officers' pleas for talks to settle the general strike. The Dahoman general staff thereupon ordered the army's so-called force de frappe, which consists...
Even the Beatles had to pay $50 apiece to get in-as John Lennon and George Harrison did to give a leg-up to the annual Paris gala for UNICEF. And even the Beatles had competition from such lens lizards as Marlon Bran do, Fernandel, Victor Borge and Ravi Shankar. The main attraction for the photographers was still Liz and Richard Burton, costumed respectively as a molting ostrich and a grandfatherly hippie. So magnetic were the Burtons that the wife of Prime Minister Georges Pompidou surrendered her seat next to them for a few minutes so that Actress Jeanne Moreau...
Early-Catcher. Few weddings, royal or common, have been so closely scrutinized. Television networks devoted many a primetime hour to ogling the preliminaries and the gala reception at which 500 guests supped on lobster bar-quettes,* crabmeat bouchees, quiche lorraine and country ham with biscuits-to the accompaniment of California champagne. In a wedding-eve interview, Bridegroom Robb's brother David, 22, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin, raised TV watchers' eyebrows by remarking that what Chuck wanted most out of life was money, and that the young Marine social aide used to sell his bubble...