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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...help tally Aly-who, following ancient Moslem practice, more often than not has no last name-Tunisia has passed a law requiring some 3,000,000 Tunisians with only one name to get another by Sept. 1, 1960. Since he faces a year in jail if he fails to comply, chances are that...
Italy's 15 million fumetti fans-readers of the photographic romance magazines that take their name from the dialogue balloons-usually go for soap-opera plots. But last winter a Milan fumetto entrepreneur, Pino Vignal, scored a modest inaugural success -80,000 copies-with a fumetto magazine based on the Bible...
Harold Thomas has spent most of his adult life following Rotary's twin ideals. Says he: "I think Rotary day and night." Born in a tent in the wilds of frontier New Zealand (his middle name honors the Maori chief whose wife delivered him), he fought in France in World War I, went back to Auckland to become manager of a tiny furniture company. He soon took over, expanded the company until it now spreads through New Zealand. He joined Rotary in 1923, only two years after the club got to New Zealand. As the "NZers" flocked into Rotary...
Born. To Nelly Rivas, 20, Lolita-like friend at 14 of fading Argentine Dictator Juan Peron, and Carlos José Ramil, 25, a U.S. Embassy accountant in Argentina: their first child, a son; in Buenos Aires. Name: Carlos Joseé Jr. Weight...
Maverick (ABC, 7:30-8 p.m.). A welcome reprise of Gunshy, the deadpan spoof of a western of somewhat similar name...