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...sizable portion of swaying Latin American rhythms. The combination earns them about $15,000 a month. "We ourselves like pure jazz best," says one Okayiste, "but our people don't like it. If we only played jazz, we'd soon go broke." Always on the lookout for old African tribal melodies, band members often go into the bush to watch village dances, rework the tunes when they return to town. Often old men appear from villages with melodies they want the Okayistes to hear. "They play it on their primitive instruments-a few strings strung across...
Numbers Fame. Always on the lookout for girls for his personal use, Rachman frequently visited the several night clubs he owned, and would sit in a corner like a satanic kewpie, a cigar in his mouth, diamonds on his pudgy fingers, a blonde juvenile obediently at his side, and a bodyguard in the background. Christine Keeler was one of his many mistresses, and in October 1960, he set up Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine's sometime roommate, in a West End apartment complete with a two-way bedroom mirror and a tape recorder beneath the bed. "In our two happy...
Repeatedly Cordell badgered his superiors for helicopters to ease his supply problem, to facilitate medical evacuation, and to react quicker against Viet Cong attacks. Finally, early this month, five whirlybirds arrived. Last week Cordell helicoptered over the jungle on the lookout for Red guerrillas, who farther south were being buffeted by a massive government offensive against the Viet Cong stronghold of Tayninh province, 50 miles northwest of Saigon. The government mission was a failure; forewarned, the Reds slipped away into the bush, lost only 45 men killed in seven days. But in the central highlands the Viet Cong did exact...
...February 14 of last year, an anonymous caller told the police to be on the lookout for a letter that contained a railroad baggage check which led to the recovery of 20 modern paintings, worth $600,000, stolen from the Riviera's Colombe d'Or Inn in St.-Paul-de-Vence on April Fool's Day, 1960. Last week, la belle téléphone rang again, with even more spectacular news...
...Kashmir's northeast bulge, is the sorest of all. A high, arid plateau with a jungle of peaks rising out of it, Ladakh is claimed by both India and Pakistan in their acrid dispute over the control of Kashmir. Indian defence forces must thus be on the lookout for both the Chinese and the Pakistanis. Polyandry is the most widespread feature of Ladakh society; when a woman marries a man, she often marries his younger brothers also. When the eldest brother dies, the widow can divorce the younger husbands by tying her finger to a finger of the corpse...