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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Baghdad's press and radio settled uneasily in their chairs for a hastily called press conference by Premier Karim Kassem. He wanted to ask questions, not answer them. For four hours an unsmiling Kassem blasted his audience, charged Baghdad's predominantly Communist press with fomenting the recent bloody, three-day uprising in Kirkuk that took 121 lives. Though he never used the term "Communist," Kassem referred repeatedly to "anarchists," and his audience knew whom he had in mind...
...Premier produced maps that he said had been seized during a recent raid on the Communist-dominated Student Union. The maps divided Baghdad into sectors "for the purpose of dragging through the streets the sons of the people. The students marked some of the houses 'suspect' and others 'for dragging.' " Kassem's wrath next turned to the Red-dominated Iraqi trade unions, which he accused of engaging too heavily in politics. Almost as a footnote, he referred to another riotous occasion-the Mosul uprising last March in which a notorious Communist lawyer "buried 17 persons...
...duel between two bullfighters instead of the usual three) to determine which is Spain's best. In the Valencia arena, Ordonez swiftly dispatched his three bulls, showed the lethal grace that has. won him 42 ears as trophies from 26 fights this year. Making a comeback after a recent three-year retirement, Dominguin (57 ears in 29 fights this year) dispatched his first two bulls with some trouble, did not attempt to delight the crowd with his show-stopping telefono routine-leaning casually on the bull's head and pretending to talk into its horn. But Dominguin, facing...
Ahmad's five Argo albums have sold well, and one of his most recent, Jamal at the Pershing, was for months the top jazz LP in the country. For club engagements Ahmad now gets a top fee of $3,000 per week. Appearing last week at Indiana's French Lick Jazz Festival, he was at the top of his inventive form. A master of the dramatic effects of silence, he sometimes sits for as much as 16 bars without touching a key ("A pattern," he points out, "can be completed in space"). He rarely repeats himself...
...Wall Street's favorite guessing games in recent weeks: "When will oils begin to catch up with the rest of the market?" The answer came last week, as surging oil-company earnings reports gave oil shares their sharpest rise since the easing of the Suez crisis in December 1956. Standard Oil Co. (NJ.) rose 3$ points to 54⅛ as it reported earnings of $1.47 per share, v. $1.22 in the first half last year. Gulf Oil Corp. stock added 6| points during the week to close at 116⅛, after reporting first-half earnings of $4.38 per share...