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...slum of Attarine, is now at Chez Maxim's (where Bandleader Azzam himself hit the big time), and adores his girl "like tomato sauce" (salsa del pommodore in Azzam's pidgin Italian). But the words do not matter. They merely complement the international melody, which tinkles like goat bells near the White Nile and clicks like the heels of an Andalusian gypsy. Scored by Azzam for bongos, flute, tambourine, echo chamber and his own voice, Mustapha is adapted from an Egyptian student song, but owes much of its popularity to electricity. When he plays the song at nightclub...
...Roguish World of Dr. Brinkley, by Gerald Carson. A sparkling biography of the quack who became a millionaire with his radio-advertised promise that old men, through goat-gland implants, could become potent old menaces...
...last thing Nixon has in mind is to reach agreement on outstanding questions, liquidate the conditions of tension, and stop the arms race." Sending him to the summit, added Khrushchev, drawing on his ghostwriters' stock of Russian parables, is like "leaving the cabbage to the care of the goat...
...Goat? To the council's surprise, the largely rural delegates voted unanimously to retain the custom of bride price. Observed one woman: "A bride price gives a girl a sense of her worth." Others feared that without paying a bride price, a man might say to his wife, "I got you for nothing, so you must be worth nothing." Besides, said another woman, "a bride's family can always remind themselves of their lost daughter by looking at the cows they got in exchange...
...demanded an improvement in women's lot. One delegation complained that in Acholi a wife is treated "exactly like a goat," and asked plaintively: "Why should girls be educated when they will be treated like dogs after marriage?" Another argued that a husband should be prohibited from asking back his bride price if he rejects his wife after she has borne children for him. A resolution was passed recommending that husbands make clear their inheritance intentions by drawing up wills. But several delegates uneasily pointed out that this was a dangerous subject. A husband whose wife urged...