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Nothing much had happened to Corsica since Napoleon left home in 1779. The island's haughty, hawk-nosed men still rode off sidesaddle on their donkeys to fight vendettas. Their wives still milked the native sheep to produce a cheese with the clout and consistency of a plastic bomb. The sun still sank blood-red behind the Sanguinary Isles, while local folk singers recalled the prowess of Bonaparte in their atonal anthem, L'Ajaccienne. A calm enough scene-until early last summer, when the somber, somnolent island awoke to the 20th century. Suddenly, bombs exploded in the night...
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto was aquiver with rage and frustration-as usual. Addressing a press conference in Pakistan's capital of Rawalpindi, the hawk-nosed Foreign Minister announced that because of Malaysia's "immoral, hostile and unfriendly" attitude on the Kashmir question, Pakistan was severing diplomatic relations forthwith. Thus, last week, Pakistan became the first member of the British Commonwealth ever to cut its ties with another...
...confused normal people. Is he suggesting that the contemplative life in the modern world can only be lived in the loony bin-or that the only way to be happy is to be crazy? Jessua lets the audience decide for itself. In any case, Actor Denner, who has the hawk nose and almond eyes of a Persian miniature, is a most engaging madman...
...Philadelphia. His son, also Charles, grew up and headed West to seek his fortune. When he got to Sullivan, he ran out of money, went to work as a hired hand on the farm of Major Addison McPheeters, a Scots settler who won his spurs in the Black Hawk War. Before long, Charles Shuman married the major's daughter Mary and took over the farm. They had three children, one of whom was Bliss, Charlie Shuman's father...
...their children these days, they often warn: "Tonight you won't watch Carosello." The nightly eleven-minute TV show has a huge audience of both children and adults, despite the fact that it is nothing more than a nonstop commercial, peppered with jingles, cartoons and celebrity testimonials that hawk everything from Stock brandy to "Tiger in your tank." Carosello is but one reason why TV advertising, little known outside the U.S. a decade ago, has become a $775 million-a-year business in a dozen countries, from Finland to Japan. This year that total will probably increase another...