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Whatever happened to Chopsticks'? In Tokyo, Japanese jazzmen fell in line to jam with Vibraharpist Lionel Hampton, 49, packing them in on a five-week barnstorm tour of Japan. His regular cats augmented with local talent-including a belting new gal vocalist, Mayumi Kuroda, 21-Hamp gave the customers "integrated music" stomped out by an "Asiatic Harlem" band. "The more I travel," says he, "the more I'm convinced that jazz isn't native to the States. These boys can read the flyspecks off wallpaper...
...more ways than murder. Its closeups of fading Film Queens Danielle Darrieux and Michele Morgan constitute a photographic invasion of privacy. One corpulent beldam, a doomed weekend guest at Landru's Art Nouveau rookery near Paris, eats raspberries from Landru's hand and ends up with jam dribbling wretchedly down her chins...
President Pusey will receive an honorary degree from Boston College this afternoon at colorful ceremonies marking the school's 100th anniversary. John F. Kennedy '40 will also address more than 30,000 people expected to jam B.C. Stadium for the 2 p.m. academic procession...
...effects on earth will not be noticed by nonscientific people, especially those who live in cities. There will be fewer auroras, which are caused by charged particles from the excited sun tangling with the top of the earth's atmosphere. There will be no magnetic storms to jam long-range communication, but radio amateurs will have to switch to lower frequencies because the ionized layers in the upper atmosphere will be thinner, letting the hams' shorter wave lengths escape into space...
...their headstrong hurry to build plants atop plantations, many of the world's developing nations go for broke-and could end up there. When they get in a jam, they usually turn to a club of worldly bankers called the International Monetary Fund, set up at the Bretton Woods conference in 1944 to give emergency, short-term aid to ailing economies. The IMF has become a powerful and controversial force in the world economy, forcing upon loan-seeking nations stiff conditions that frequently rescue their economies but gall their free-spending politicians. With loans at work in 24 developing...