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...miners queued up as usual at the "Drink Tea and Eat Fried Meat and Radio Servicing" shop. At the Iddo Motor Park, beside the Bight of Benin, the lorries and "mammy wagons" of Ibo refugees were drawn into a frontier-style circle, while families clustered around huge pots of palm-oil chop-a bubbling mass of rice, meat, fish and coconut squeezings. The fatalistic mottoes on the mammy wagons seemed symbolically apt. "God knows best," read one; "I shall return," promised another. But the most appropriate said: "Man must whack...
...easygoing skipper who runs an exceedingly loose and happy ship. All the 99 officers and men aboard could have stepped right out of an old MGM movie. In fact, after a while, the reader begins to wish that a Mr. Roberts would appear to toss the captain's palm tree overboard, or that Skipper Adler would start rolling a couple of ball bearings in his hands...
...playing it straight this time. Bob Hope and his wife Dolores signed over 80 acres of land, valued at more than $500,000, as a site for the new $5,500,000 Eisenhower Medical Center to be built in Palm Desert, Calif., where Ike and Mamie spend their winters. Earlier, the Hopes had chipped in $50,000 toward the heart, pulmonary and cancer research center...
Beastly is the word for the people in this picture. Out beyond Palm Springs, six of the sicklers solo off and chainwhip a couple of stompers from another hogpen. In the peel-off, Loser (Bruce Dern) puts the burn on a police bike, catches a slug in the back, lands on the critical list. H.B. and his buddies bust him out of the hospital, but back at the clubhouse Loser dies of shock while puffing pot. As the fuzz move in, the choppers move out for Loser's funeral in a chapel draped with Nazi banners. The-rite soon...
...first there was Djibouti. Djibouti is the coastal capital of French Somaliland (pop. 100,000), a tiny toothmark of rocks, desert and hot wind located on the African side of the mouth of the Red Sea. Its only notable product is a wine concocted from the doom palm, its principal source of income a narrow-gauge railway from Ethiopia to Djibouti's excellent port. Offered its independence in 1958, French Somaliland turned it down, and is now the only French colony in Africa. Three-quarters of the voters in a national plebiscite elected to retain their ties with France...