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Working Off Steam. Today, the brightest jewel in Spain's African crown is Spanish Guinea, which Consists of the verdant, volcanic island of Fernando Poo, a few other smaller islands and the larger, rain-forest mainland province of Rio Muni. Thanks to steady help from Madrid, Fernando Poo boasts bountiful harvests of coffee, bananas and cocoa. It has a model road system, one of Africa's highest rates of primary school attendance (89%) and per capita income ($246)-and probably its biggest leisure class. When the Spanish government gave the island's Bubi tribesmen their own farms...
Along the way, Fernando Poo pulled steadily ahead of timber-and coffeegrowing Rio Muni, sharpening a longtime rivalry between the two provinces. But, departing from his policy in Spain, where politics remain tightly controlled, Franco has permitted Spanish Guineans to form at least half a dozen noisy political parties to work off their steam. Many politicians in Fernando Poo want the island to remain part of Spain. Those in Rio Muni want independence, but they also hope to keep the $7,300,000 a year in export subsidies and $670,000 a year in budget support that Spain now provides...
Died. Paul Muni, 71, virtuoso of biographical roles; of a heart attack; in Montecito, Calif. "Method? Formula? Highfalutin words," Muni once scoffed. Trained on New York's Yiddish stage, he submerged himself in each new movie role until the actor disappeared, taking days to perfect his makeup, spending weeks learning every nuance of the characters he portrayed-an arrogant gangster in Scarf ace (1932), a fierce patriot in Juarez (1939), a dedicated scientist in The Story of Louis Pasteur, which won him a 1936 Oscar. His Hollywood appeal faded in the 1940s, but he made a triumphant return...
...Capone has a compelling fascination for actors. Edward G. Robinson, Rod Steiger and Paul Muni have all had their shots at Scarface. Now it is Jason Robards' turn...
This large, crude, simple vision may be vaguely familiar to those who remember Paul Muni as Juárez, Wallace Beery as Pancho Villa, or Elia Kazan's Zapata, which had Judases aplenty and Marlon Brando on the same white horse that tourists can see in Rivera's mural in the National Palace. A novelist has more trouble than the makers of film epics. In this case, Fuentes has had to package the whole corpus of Mexican history into the dying body of a septuagenarian symbol named Artemio Cruz...