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Died. Mwamikazi Bujana Elisabeth Mwakamarongu, venerable regent of some 250,000 Neweshe Bashi tribesmen of the Congo's Kivu province; after a long illness; in Ngweshe, Kivu. Her age, according to her great-grandson, King Pierre Ndatabaye, "certainly more than 100, probably around...
...social sense. Beck's punishment has already been severe. Before the Senate hearings, he took inordinate pride in the fact that he was a member of dozens of boards, a regent of the University of Washington, a member of the state board of prison terms and paroles. After the hearings. Seattle hanged and burned him in effigy, and his stature was irredeemably lost...
...shadows-presumably acting as intermediaries between Mrs. Felzer and the actual buyers-stood one D. Franklin Carson, who called himself a "pro-regent,"* and "Prince" Samuel Crowningburg Amalu, 42, who claims descent from the family of Hawaii's famed King Kamehameha the Great...
...simple device of promising them big rewards. "In a way," said one Hawaiian, "Sammy's the only innocent guy in the whole deal. All he wanted was publicity." All Too Fantastic. Most of Sammy's erstwhile business associates found it hard to be so forgiving. While Pro-Regent Carson (who turned out to be a 19-year-old Van Nuys, Calif., printer) lamented the $2,000-a-month salary he had been promised, Mrs. Felzer fretted over the $10,000 she had paid Chinn Ho as a binder on the big deal. Said Wheeler-Dealer Ho wonderingly...
...from it's cozy FIreside, while Chester, Pa., and its saucy GYpsy will be parted. NIghtingale and HYacinth will nevermore breathe their poetry over Brooklyn's wires. The sands are running out fpr such venerable status symbols as Upper East Side Manhattan's BUtterfield 8 and REgent 4. They will some day be as obsolete as morning coats on Easter Sunday...