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Nowhere in the Deep South has the 1965 Voting Rights Act had a headier effect than in Alabama. In the seven months since its passage, Negro registrants in the state have doubled (to 221,329), and are expected to increase even further. In the May 3 Democratic primary, a dozen Alabama Negroes are running for the lily-white state legislature, 50 others for local office...
...Tiger & the Ducks. The main theme of De Gaulle's speeches was equally familiar and equally effective: "Our destiny is called national prosperity." But through it, he wove the even headier subthemes of national pride and France's independence of the U.S. At the beach resort of Sables-d'Olonne, he cried, "This country, this France which has bound its wounds, is recovering its power, its influence; this France which is increasingly reckoned with from one end of the world to the other . . ." In Sainte-Hermine, he laid a wreath at the monument to Georges Clemenceau...
...Headier Stuff. Shoehorned into green-and-gilt chairs at dime-sized tables, last week's audience snacked on ham sand wiches, strawberry sundaes, champagne, beer, pink "Pops punch" and Fiedler's musical buffet-everything from a glass-rattling Sousa march ("to get everybody's attention") to a Mendelssohn concerto, a Strauss waltz, a Weber overture and a splash of lushly orchestrated show tunes. For surprise encores Vaudevillian Fiedler uncorked a brassy, off Beatle I Want to Hold Your Hand complete with handclapping and nasal chorus of "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah" from the string section, and a breezy Hello...
...high jinks, though, Fiedler liberally laces his joy juice with headier stuff from Handel, Frescobaldi, Poulenc and Stravinsky. He delights in proclaiming, "I've been accused of making more friends for music than any other conductor. I have no use for those snobs who look down their noses at everything but the most highbrow music. I'm a serious musician, but I don't want to be classified. I'd be bored doing only symphony music...
...their Hamitic heritage, their nomad hardiness. No Somali youth feels secure without an iron bracelet-won only by killing two men in combat. Argumentative and fiercely antiauthoritarian, the Somalis are often called the "Irish of Africa," although as Moslems they prefer cold camel's milk to a headier gargle. Well-meaning foreigners who stroll into their quaint, collapsible villages (stick-and skin aghals that can be packed onto camelback in a matter of minutes) often find themselves on the receiving end of accurately thrown stones as the Somalis scream, "Out with the infidel!" Even Mogadishu, Somalia's sunny...