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...VOICE OF AFRICA (RCA Victor) is Miriam Makeba, late of South Africa and also dispossessed. The music here is not only African: there is a taste of gospel, a pop tune and even opera (the Willow Song from Otello). Makeba can manage them all, but her heart is in the songs of her own people, like Ohude and Uyadela. "When all the beasts of the earth had gone to fetch their tails," she sings in Zulu, "the rock rabbit had long given up all hope, hence the absence of his tail...
...Married. Miriam Makeba, 32, gaunt South African Xosa tribeswoman whose plaintive folk chants have made her a top U.S. nightclub and recording star; and Hugh Masekela, 25, South African trumpeter and her arranger; she for the third time; in Stamford, Conn...
Married. Peter Arrell Brown Widener HI, 39, Florida sportsman, great-grandson and namesake of the Philadelphia butcher who parlayed the profits from selling meat to the Union Army into a $100 million real estate empire; and Frances Miriam (Mimi) Crenshaw, 22, Delta Air Lines stewardess; he for the third time (his first wife divorced him in 1958, his second died in a February 1963 plane crash); in Palm Beach Gardens...
Married. Levi Eshkol, 68, Premier of Israel, and Miriam Zelikovitch, 34, onetime Israeli Army sergeant, now librarian of Parliament; he for the third time (his first wife divorced him in 1930, his second died in 1959); in a lunch-hour ceremony after which Eshkol hustled off to a foreign policy conference in Jerusalem...
...Miriam Stone '66, one of the authors of the referendum, thought freshmen probably would get similar privileges in a couple of years. "And it might not be such a bad thing," she added...