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...Accra were startled last week when a low-flying jet trainer zoomed over government-built skyscrapers in the Ghanaian capital. People in villages as far as 400 miles away were later treated to the same unusual sight. The pilot of the plane was Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 33. The madcap buzzing was his way of announcing that the fourth coup in the country's 22 years as an independent nation had apparently succeeded...
...Humor Columnists, a nonpartisan, nonprofit and otherwise nonexistent organization that hands out awards to each member and encourages the exchange of funny memos. "If we put as much effort into our columns as we have into our correspondence, we'd all be millionaires," says Erma Bombeck, 52, whose madcap suburban comedies are syndicated to 800 newspapers, and who may be a millionaire anyway...
Rainier himself broke off a six-year liaison with a French actress named Gisele Pascal to marry Grace-a wedding boycotted by European royalty, who disapproved of the bricklayer's daughter from Philadelphia. And Caroline's grandmother Princess Charlotte-known long ago as the "Madcap Princess of Monaco"-made headlines when she ran off with an Italian physician...
Given the speed with which Oxford anthologies become holy writ, Amis' peculiarities are regrettable. It is impossible, though, to pull a long face at his collection. The poems he assembles are pleasing, instructive and full of laughter. Even the index of first lines is surreally madcap. Take the sad little story told in the first five...
...year-old protégés of Director Steven Spielberg (the film's executive producer), it tells the story of a gaggle of suburban teen-agers who will stop at nothing to see the Beatles in person during their maiden visit to New York. As madcap farce the movie is wildly uneven: it starts slowly, and ultimately tots up as many dead spots as solid laughs. Yet the film succeeds at a far worthier mission. I Wanna Hold Your Hand re-creates precisely the excitement the Beatles let loose 14 years ago; it transports the audience back...