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Medicine & Mushrooms. The prince soon demonstrated the qualities that make Laotians the despair of Western diplomats. A plump sybarite who in quieter times is fond of repairing to the French Riviera, Boun Oum announced no ringing program. Instead, he flew south most nights to sleep in his quiet and safe former headquarters, Savannakhet. At lunch, his favorite companions turned out to be not candidates for the cabinet but girls from the Vientiane dance halls...
...most of the day, the plump eleven-year-old crawled around the bathroom floor steering the electric toy automobile with the flashing headlights. The next evening, dressed in a white jacket, short black pants, white socks and black shoes, he made his way to Brussels' Palais des Beaux Arts, where he conducted the Antwerp Philharmonic Orchestra in Beethoven's Eighth Symphony, Egmont Overture and Third Piano Concerto. At another point in the program, with a slight bow to the royal box, Giuseppe...
Divorce Revealed. Joseph ("Socks") Lanza, 59, once-tough labor extortionist whose short-lived 1957 parole made headlines as a political scandal; by Ellen Connor Lanza, 50, a plump blonde who sobbed, "Don't worry, honey" when Lanza was led back to jail; after 19 years of marriage (best man: Gangster Frank Costello), no children; six months ago in Mexico, while Socks was still in prison...
Scheduled to follow Bayar was former Premier Adnan Menderes, a hollow-eyed, sunken-cheeked wreck of his once plump and sleek self. In a barely audible voice, he earlier told the court he had been kept in solitary confinement for more than four months, had been allowed only 27 minutes with a defense lawyer two days before the trial. Complained Menderes: "My nerves are shattered." The main charge against him was "activities contrary to the constitution." But the first specific was that he had fathered a child by a Turkish opera singer, and then had given orders to kill...
Transition. In visiting 237 schools in 23 states, Conant found wide disagreement over where to fit grades 7-9 in a school system. Some communities keep grades 7 and 8 in elementary school, some plump for a six-year high school, and still others hold that the separate three-year junior high school gives combustible half-adolescents a chance to grow at their own pace. In reality, says Conant, the junior high often becomes "a replica of the senior high school with its attendant social pressures." Hitting hard at pretentious commencements, big-time football and marching bands that "serve merely...