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...King, was indeed dead-or at least he had lost his crown. The exciting, agile, acrobatic youth who almost single-handed won Brazil the World Cup in 1958 and led his Santos team to two world professional-club championships was now 27, married, rich, overweight -naturally-and the goat of Brazil's loss to Hungary in the 1966 World Cup playoffs. The spotlight moved from Pelé to the pretenders: England's Bobby Charlton, Portugal's Eusebio...
...also kept a list of puritanical Rules of Life, which he usually updated during the tormented periods of guilt that almost always followed his revels. Even his searing self-rebuke often seemed gluttonous. He was, says Troyat in one of the book's few sprightly phrases, "a billy-goat pining for purity...
South Arabia consists of the port of Aden and 17 feudal satraps whose Bedouin tribesmen eat goat meat and carry everywhere their curved djambias (daggers). Its life has been disrupted and its British-sponsored federal government destroyed by four years of terrorism and civil war. With the British will depart much of the country's economy. London paid most government expenses. British troops generated 30% of the country's gross national product, the British free port brought tourist dollars into Aden, and the British Petroleum Co. built the Federation's only significant industry-an oil refinery...
...police have painted them blue and white, the national colors. Every house is adorned with a new flag-pole. Policemen come by to tell the people when to raise the flag, and when to pull it down again, for the frequent nationalist celebrations proclaimed by the Junta. A goat is spread asleep in front of an old stable, under-neath a flag. Thank God the Greek national colors are beautiful...
...Theatre was originally founded in 1950 by a group including Archibald MacLeish, Harold L. Levin '30, and Thornton Wilder. It produced original plays including Hogan's Goat by Alfred, and was the first American theatre to produce Dylan Thomas' Under Milkwood...