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Last week Enrico Mattei proudly listed his accomplishments: "We're building seven refineries in Morocco, Tunisia, Ghana, Poland, Sicily, the Po Valley and Switzerland. We're building our own offshore drilling rigs. One is already in the Red Sea, two in the Persian Gulf, one will start soon in a gas field in the Adriatic. Just yesterday I returned from Rumania, where I sold $5,000,000 worth of equipment...
...Morocco...
...Kremlin's propagandists ventured to criticize Nasser's stern repression of Egyptian Communists (TIME, June 16). Said Saudi Arabia Foreign Minister Ibrahim Sowail: "We will not abide Soviet attacks on any Arab country and least of all on the U.A.R., our biggest sister." Top officials in Yemen, Morocco and Lebanon took the Soviets to task for being "unfair" to an Arab neighbor. Arab propagandists took up the cudgels in their own fashion. "Communism," the Baghdad daily Al-Fajr al-Jadid explained to its readers, "is to all intents and purposes a Jewish concept." READ ABOUT THE PART PLAYED...
...international café society, an Italian peasant's son who emigrated to Manhattan as a 17-year-old bus boy (via Argentina, where he worked as Heavyweight Luis Firpo's sparring partner), later for three decades operated the city's most caste-conscious nightclub, El Morocco; of double pneumonia; in Manhattan...
Elsewhere, reactions were mixed. Roseland, a staid, family waltzery near Broadway, banned La Pachanga because it feared for its floor. Freddy Alonso, an El Morocco bandleader, played pachangas but reported sadly that someone had knocked over a table while essaying the stomp. It is "just not El Morocco," according to one patron, to wave one's handkerchief while pachangaing...