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...LEOPARD (319 pp.)-Giuseppe di Lampedusa-Pantheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elegy for an Autocrat | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...spring of 1956, Sicilian Prince Giuseppe di Lampedusa diffidently handed an unsigned manuscript copy of The Leopard to a friend, who put it away in a desk drawer and forgot it. Lampedusa later dispatched another copy of the story -which he had contemplated writing for a quarter-century-to a publisher's reader, who pronounced it unpublishable. Five days after this news, in July 1957, the cancer-ridden, 61-year-old prince died. Months later, the manuscript in the desk drawer was unearthed and sent to Gian Giacomo Feltrinelli, Doctor Zhivago's original publisher, who recognized its power...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Elegy for an Autocrat | 5/2/1960 | See Source »

...hope that after independence they will be able to keep the copper wealth of their Katanga province pretty much to themselves. He also has there a fiercely loyal tribal following, which he has carefully kept inflamed. The result was that no sooner had Lumumba appeared on the scene, a leopard skin draped dramatically over his well-tailored lounge suit, than the fighting began...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BELGIAN CONGO: The Visitor | 3/28/1960 | See Source »

Though the 40-odd tribes of Northern Laos are permitted to raise poppies and extract opium from their pods-it is the only cash crop available to them-the export of the drug is illegal. The boys at the Snow Leopard get around the ban by maintaining a fleet of half a dozen Single-engine Beavers and Pipers outfitted with auxiliary gas tanks. They fly into South Viet Nam and parachute the jam to agents in isolated valleys, who carry it to Saigon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: The Boys at the Snow Leopard | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Last week the British at Hong Kong seized 340 lbs. of opium on a plane that had just flown in from Laos. But the boys at the Snow Leopard were not disconcerted. Said Couscous contemptuously: "That was the work of pure amateurs. A few days before the shipment they were drunk in a Vientiane bar, and boasting about the killing they were going to make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LAOS: The Boys at the Snow Leopard | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

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