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Dates: during 1950-1959
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First List. When British and French invaded Egypt in 1956, Joseph Smouha, then 80, fled to Paris, taking with him all his kinfolk and household, numbering about 60. The Egyptians sequestrated his property. In Cairo last month the Egyptians agreed to pay $87 million compensation for 1) expropriated British-owned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Smouhaha | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Last week, as Bishop Théas called on his diocese to boycott the "foreigners," the new basilica stood finally finished. Less splendid was the open feud among churchmen. As Paris' Le Monde put it: "Monsignor Théas has paid a heavy price for his basilica in every...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Costly Basilica | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Les Ballets Africains is the creation of Keita Fodeba, a 37-year-old lawyer who became Guinea's Minister of the Interior when that country chose independence last fall in Charles de Gaulle's referendum. As a law student in Paris in 1949, Fodeba led two other Guinean...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hit from Africa | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

Slim, attractive, fortyish Denise Duval, who once sang (fully clothed) at the Folies-Bergere, repeated the triumph she scored in the opera's debut early this month in Paris. Says Singer Duval: "This is a true role. I don't have to invent attitudes. It's happened...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Telephone Opera | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

The ruckus began four years ago when acerbic John Gordon, 68, chief editor of the sensational Sunday Express (circ. 3.426,753), noticed that Graham Greene had listed Lolita, then published by Olympia Press of Paris, as one of the best books of 1955. Gordon sent to Paris for a copy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Lolita in Tunbridge Wells | 3/2/1959 | See Source »

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