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Next week in Los Angeles, a modern mecca of breast and buttock fanciers, the County Museum is staging one of the biggest Renoir retrospectives ever held. On show will be top-flight canvases from Renoir's best working years, from 1865 until his death in 1919. Curator Richard Brown has also rounded up a nearly complete set of Renoir's prints, many of his finest drawings, and 18 sculptures...
...engaged me as a servant," a half-naked African told the French police in Bamako. "At the same time he hired another man and his wife and child. That was a long time ago-about 15 years. I should say. All of us made the holy pilgrimage to Mecca, and there my master sent me to work at the house of Prince Abdullah Feisal. Long months went by and one day I learned that Mohammed Ali had returned to Africa. The prince ordered me to come before him and told me that I was no longer a free...
...chiefs examine us and select those they want, just like at a camel fair. You can buy a man like me for a pinch of gold." Ex-Slave Awad El Goud is only one of many French African Moslems who have been kidnaped into slavery as pilgrims to Mecca. Last week his story was told in Paris by Emmanuel La Graviére, Calvinist minister and Assemblyman of the French Union. "In the course of an investigation over the past few months in French West Africa," said La Graviére, "I have obtained proof that several hundred Negroes have...
...past few months, backed by a number of Communist-backed newspapers called the "mosquito" press, the Reds have laid their fire on higher ground: the new Nanyang University that its chancellor, Author Lin Yutang (The Importance of Living), had dreamed of building into the intellectual mecca of the millions of free Chinese in Southeast Asia (TIME, Aug. 16). Day after day, Lin was singled out for special attack in the press; he received an anonymous threat to his life, was forced to go about the city with a police bodyguard. This month, when Lin finally resigned, ostensibly because...
Less than 50 years ago, Saudi Arabia was a desert kingdom whose prime source of income was a head tax imposed on Moslem pilgrims traveling to Mecca. Today the derricks and pipelines of a huge U.S. corporation tap rich pools of oil beneath the desert sands and turn them into streams of gold that pour into the royal coffers of Saudi Arabia at a rate of $200 million yearly. Last week TIME's Middle East Correspondent Keith Wheeler cabled an account of the problems and promises engendered by this desert alchemy...