Word: heir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Even Lumumba's heir in the Congo. Moscow-and Cairo-blessed Antoine Gizenga, has little to show from Nasser's friendship. Says Pierre Mulele, Gizenga's "chief of mission" in Cairo: "All the aid we have got from the U.A.R. is the visa that was given me to come here." Mulele lives as Nasser's guest in a suite in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, comforted by a big Siemens radio receiver to keep him in touch with Stanleyville. One Cairo diplomat sums up Nasser's diminished stature: "Nobody has much to hope...
...story concerns the pitiful boyhood and youth of Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor is a pen name) in a wet, ruined, pious and oppressed Cork slum. Young Michael was heir to every misery that could afflict a boy: bad teeth, bad eyes, failure and constant canings at school, disgrace in his first wretched jobs, and the horror of a miserly, sententious and drunken father. James Joyce's squalid boyhood in Dublin was a princely origin compared with the Tartarean depths of little Mick O'Donovan's life in Cork. Yet by some miracle...
...chief problem among the local leaders is Stanleyville's pro-Communist boss and Patrice Lumumba's heir, Antoine Gizenga, who nervously decided to go to Madagascar, then obeyed direct Russian orders to stay home. But Gizenga's empire is shrinking; last week part of it got chopped off into the next state of Maniema. Gizenga's home ground is Leopoldville, and he does not even speak the common Stanleyville tongue, Swahili...
Delinquent Girls. Pierre and Raymond leafed through the social register, Bottin Mondain, to find a victim, settled on four-year-old Eric Peugeot, heir to one of France's greatest fortunes (autos, appliances, heavy machinery). After studying the habits of the Peugeot family, Raymond kidnaped little Eric on April 12 last year from a sandbox at the exclusive St.-Cloud country club, left behind a typewritten note to the boy's father, demanding $100,000 ransom. Bundling the boy into a stolen Peugeot 403 sedan, Raymond and Pierre drove to the farmhouse at Grisy-les-Plâtres...
...former TIME writer, to replace John Denson, who resigned last month to become editor of the New York Herald Tribune. Aging Board Chairman Muir was politely shifted to a resounding but inactive new post as chairman of the executive committee of the board. Malcolm Muir Jr., 45. once heir apparent to his father's desk, was invited to move to Washington in an as yet unidentified capacity on the Post...