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...believes that he is the "Saviour of Africa." To associates, he said recently: "I am like the man who walked into Jerusalem 2,000 years ago and got the people to follow him." A newspaper has published a new lexicon of titles for Nkrumah that make royal rankings seem pale by comparison. Among the titles...
...lower lip had the same courageous thrust as in the wartime posters, but the sturdy, bulldog head was sunk deep into slumped shoulders, and the pale blue eyes were watery and weary when Sir Winston Churchill tottered slowly into the House of Commons as Big Ben struck 3 on his 87th birthday. "Hear, hear, hear," rolled out the traditional Commons welcome, until it beat like a native drum. Then came a few most unparliamentary hurrahs (with nary a reprimand from the bewigged Speaker), and the "right honorable member for Woodford" slumped into his lifetime front-bench seat. A government spokesman...
...image of Fate in the forest, a ghost-pale crone who sits like a Norn at her spinning wheel, spinning the thread of life and croaking prophecies that fly out of her tomb-dark throat like bats...
...Pale, better looking than Elvis Presley, he drinks nothing stronger than milk and could be a U.S. college freshman. And despite all his rock and riot, he has received critical praise that Elvis Presley would be unlikely to get even if he spent 200 years at the Yale School of Music. "In the domain of modern music," the music critic of the respected cultural weekly Arts has written, "Johnny Hallyday has raised several original points. He is probably the best abstract singer the world has ever known...
Died. Louis Charles Rabaut, 74, pro-labor Democratic Congressman from Michigan's 14th District (Greater Detroit), a stanch Roman Catholic whose shining achievement in 13 pale terms in the House was the 1954 legislation inserting the words "under God" into the U.S. Pledge of Allegiance; of a heart attack; in Hamtramck, Mich...