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...disintegration of the U.N. in the Congo, Christendom has already lost the cold war in Central Africa, not so much because of Franco-Belgian-British imperialism as because of race prejudice. The oppression of the colored in South Africa, the rear-guard action of the whites in Southern Rhodesia and Arkansas, are decisive...
...Wood (Bittersweet, Blithe Spirit), ANTA last week collected round her most of the remaining members of the much-chronicled Algonquin Round Table. The late great wits were missing, of course-Alexander Woollcott, Franklin P. Adams, Robert Benchley, Herman Mankiewicz-and, significantly, the reunion was held not at the old rear-center table in the Rose Room of the Algonquin but in the grand ballroom of Manhattan's Hotel Edison, five blocks and 90 light-years away. The most notable living absentees were George S. Kaufmann, who is ill, and Dorothy Parker, who was accused of probably missing the invitation...
...piece of clay and before you know it Carl has another model." He often tailored his cars to his own measurements, and since he was only 5 ft. 4 in., tall men were often uncomfortable in his cars. On one car, buyers complained of an odd right rear seat that was impossible for any normal-size person to fit in. Shrugged Borgward: "The seat was designed for the family...
...Yacht Club elected earlier this week Carter G. Ford '63 of Winthrop House, commodore; Philip H. Tobey '62 of Adams House, secretary-treasurer; Paul M. Lehman '63 of Adams House, rear commodore...
...Overboard. Revolutionist Henrique Galváo, 65, who had seized the Santa Maria twelve days before and some 2,800 miles away in the name of the Portuguese Liberation junta, refused to dock at Recife until he was assured of supplies, fuel, and permission to sail off again. U.S. Rear Admiral Allen E. Smith Jr. boarded the Santa Maria to discuss the fate of the 42 U.S. passengers, was met by Galváo wearing a black beret, a khaki uniform with shoulder boards, and an armband in the green and red of Portugal's flag. Swashbuckling Galv...