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...Mecca. In 1956 came Morocco's independence. Determined to propel his nation into the 20th century, King Mohammed slashed Karaouine's religious studies, introduced math, physics, chemistry and foreign languages. In 1957 he jolted traditionalists by setting up a female branch at Karaouine, where the enrollment (6,325) now includes 1,197 women. Soon will come another big revolution: 3,000 cramped boarders will move to airy dormitories on the new campus outside Fez, which will boast 70 modern classrooms and laboratories and such un heard of niceties as a laundry, athletic field, infirmary and dining halls...
...Hear, Hear." Erratic Patrice Lumumba emerged from the Premier's residence only long enough to attend a 9 p.m. "luncheon" put on by the diplomats from Guinea, who still wistfully hoped to propel him back to power. Looking dour and wan, he declaimed his standard piece: the Soviet Union was the only nation interested in peace; he had asked the U.S. for help but was told to get it from the U.N. "I did not understand this comedy," he cried. But now everything was clear: the U.S. wanted a monopoly on Katanga's uranium, and big American interests...
...more appalled than Nikita Khrushchev. It wasn't the inhumanity he objected to; it was the dogma. Communes, Nikita told visiting U.S. Senator Hubert Humphrey, were "oldfashioned and reactionary." But what really irked the Kremlin was Peking's implicit boast that the commune system would propel Red China into the Marxist never-never land of full Communism ahead even of Rus sia itself...
...high school, too, he was into everything: he played baseball, basketball, football, ran the half-mile, sang second tenor in the operetta, blew the baritone horn in the school band, played piano. He was a Life Scout, captain of the debating team (his coaching methods were successful enough to propel his kid sister into the state declamation championship), and, inevitably, he was class valedictorian. A talent for leadership, too, was early manifest : at the frequent reunions of his mother's multitudinous Norwegian family*-there were eleven aunts and uncles, almost 60 first cousins-it was invariably young Hubert...
Needless to say, however, the above household items could never propel a picture to such a high place in Hollywood history, and in fact the man who does it all is Jack Palance, who here creates the definitive "fast-gun" symbol which was later to become expanded to such considerable proportions...