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...welcomes Communist aid: the Russians are building Tunisia's first institute of technology, and the Bulgarians financed a gleaming new 70,000-seat sport stadium outside Tunis. Bourguiba has not been so lucky with all Communists. After he allowed four Chinese sports instructors in to teach young Tunisians pingpong, he discovered that they had opened a campaign to spread Mao-thought; now Tunisia is on the verge of breaking relations with Peking...
...show, the trip from his home in Pacific Palisades, Calif., to Paris is a long one for a man of 75 to make alone. So Jovian Pornographer Henry Miller (Tropic of Capricorn) will take along a traveling companion-Jazz Singer Hoki Tokuda, 29, who met him at the pingpong table 18 months ago, and will become the fifth Mrs. Miller in time for the journey. Though he is sanguine enough about the marriage, Henry has the yips about his untutored abstract watercolors, which have taken up so much of his time in the past three years that he has stopped...
...girl friend," the student replied, "but I can't be sure-you get a bit fogged up." Said the girl: "Even at the parties, I always stay loyal to Jim-I think." Because the two did not have simultaneous treatment, the epidemiologists call theirs a case of "pingpong gonorrhea,"-each partner getting cured, then reinfected by the other in turn...
...Theodor Seuss Geisel, to stir the imagination of children. The workshop seems to be doing just that. The kids use the backs of dolls to make small cars for the streets of the model city; they record the city's sounds and transform them-slowed tapes of a pingpong ball bouncing on concrete boom like a distant gun; the filming gives them new visual perspectives-all aimed at making them more aware of an urban environment. "If you don't get imagination as a child, you probably never will," he argues, "because it gets knocked...
Belgium's Paul Van Hoeydonck, 41, is another artist who finds "Cape Kennedy the most romantic place on earth." His subject, too, is space. To depict it, he has abandoned pure painting in favor of white-on-white bas-reliefs made of discarded department-store mannequins, pingpong balls, electronic gadgets and gizmos. He paints them all pure white, he explains, "because white symbolizes infinity and mystery...