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...image of Nasser still burned bright in the eyes of the Egyptian masses. If ever a fellah needed a friend, it was now, and the masses believed that only "Jamal"-Nasser-could lead them to repel the enemy. Cairo police reported that in the few hours from the time that Nasser "resigned" and then changed his mind, a record number of suicides took place. When he heard of the resignation, a soldier guarding a Cairo bridge howled like a wounded animal, fired his machine gun into the Nile until it was empty...
...capital's waterfront. In the honky-tonks, they can dig the big beat of the Supremes singing Come See About Me or the kinky cool of Ahmad Jamal's Heat Wave, bop about the bars in their "shades" (sunglasses) and talk "trash" (shoot the bull). The girls of Soulsville -many of them dark-skinned Cambodians or the daughters of French Senegalese soldiers-are less costly and usually less comely than their sisters on white-dominated Tu Do Street near by. The "in" spot in Soulsville is the L. & M. Guest House, a bar-restaurant and record booth...
...Castle Hill Foundation presents a full schedule of varied musical concerts this summer. The Concerts are on Argilla Road in Ispwich (EL 6-4351 in Ipswich). The Ahmad Jamal Trio Opens the season June 30 through July 1. Then Earl Wild, piano soloist, and Arthur Fielder, with a symphony group (July 7-8); a Weekend of Jazz with Dave Brubeck and the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Duke Ellington and Lambert, Hendricks, and Ross (July 14-15); Ferrente & Teicher, duo-paints, (July 21-22); a Weekend of Folk Music with Odetta and Pete Seeger, and The Weavers and John White (July...
...named Poppy, who is a considerable trial to the dictator's Christian conscience. The characters represent every racial and religious faction-Yonarus, the fanatic chief of police who is also the secret head of the Christian terrorist organization; U.N. Ambassador Othoe, Poppy's aging, homosexual husband; Iskander Jamal, the flabby leader of the Moslem opposition. Besides its obvious parallel with Lebanon and its divided population, the book has a more esoteric derivation from the story of Emperor Nero, his favorite Poppaea, and her husband Otho. Apart from his ingenious historical allusions. Author McLaughlin, a TIME foreign news writer...
...delegates from the Middle East include Jamal Sa'd of the United Arab Republic, Director of the Arab Information Office in Washington, and Yussif Sayigh, a Syrian professor of economics at Beirut University...