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...scores of Ghanaians, including three of his top aides: Information Minister Tawia Ada-mafio, Foreign Minister Ako Adjei, Convention People's Party Chief H. H. Cofie-Crabbe. In fat headlines, his controlled press demanded DEATH TO THE TRAITORS. The Evening News even printed their pictures upside down, an omen of doom in West Africa, and Nkrumah's supporters burned effigies of the three in coffins. From all over Ghana came tribesmen who sought to exorcise the evil spirits plaguing Osagyefo by offering him concoctions of yams and eggs, sprinkling sheep's blood on his feet, and presenting...
...royalty turned out in Athens this week for the wedding of Greece's Princess Sophie to Prince Juan Carlos, 24-year-old son of the Spanish Pretender, Don Juan. Through the sunny streets strolled some 5,500 Spanish monarchists, all hopeful that the marriage was an omen for the return of the Bourbons to Spain. But absent was the commoner who alone could decide whether Juan Carlos would ever take the Spanish throne: Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco. Far from the hoopla in Athens, El Caudillo was in Spain last week dealing with the most serious unrest...
...Velde never could afford a model. So he painted the w?omen who paraded through his mind, even as his strength ebbed away from slow starvation. During World War II, living in Paris, he felt so weak that he could not hold a brush, and did not paint at all. "I lived like a phantom." he says. "I wasn't broken, though. I went on living in the work I had done earlier." He searched for handouts and scoured the gutters for cigarette butts. After the war. with the help of new patrons ("a few people for whom...
Last October, Michael Vincent Di Salle, Ohio's roly-poly Democratic Governor, announced that he would not be a candi date for re-election next November. Di Salle was discouraged by his failure to get social welfare bills through the Republican state legislature, saw an ill omen in Richard Nixon's 273,363-vote victory over John Kennedy in the state...
...which the operation was a success but the patient inexplicably made a poor recovery. Hypnotizing one such patient later, a colleague was startled to have her quote back to him verbatim a remark he had made while she was under anesthesia; she had misconstrued the remark as a bad omen for herself. Dr. Kolouch believes that even a sudden silence in the operating room upsets the unconscious mind of the fearful patient...