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...dance floor, then prevailed on her to join his touring troupe. Someone in the group produced a bottle of Grand Marnier, and from then on the gulps of beer were alternated with slugs of orange liqueur. By the time Lumumba and friends weaved into the lounge at the Hotel Regina several drinks later, the whole party was flying high. As astonished diners gaped and journalists grabbed for their pencils, Lumumba cried: "I am going out of my house tonight to die like Gandhi ... If I die, it will be because the whites have paid a black man to kill...
...Regina, Sask...
...nation of 14 million people. But with or without U.N. help, the odds against a unified Congo are enormous. In bustling Leopoldville, where 15-story office buildings rise only a few miles from huts on stilts, it was the dry season and customers on the terrace of the Hotel Regina sipped their beer in relative comfort, grateful for a temperature dip that had taken the thermometer down to the 80s. Upriver at Coquilhatville, astraddle the equator, it was sweltering as usual, and the natives crept out of their huts to sleep in the tall moist grass. To the east, where...
...Stewart (6 lbs. 13 oz.), one of some 500 babies born last week in the province's 150 government-supported hospitals, is a good example of the benefits of CCF largesse. Thanks to a compulsory hospital-insurance program introduced in 1947, Douglas' mother Donna, wife of a Regina accounting clerk, received prenatal care free; when she leaves the hospital she will simply get a bill marked "Paid." Douglas will be immunized against childhood diseases at a free public-health clinic. If he should become mentally ill, he would get free psychiatric care. If Douglas is orphaned, he will...
...young music student in the '20s, Composer Blitzstein (Regina, The Cradle Will Rock) was an avid follower of the Sacco-Vanzetti case. He felt, like many other Americans, that the two anarchists were innocent and "were not being executed for what they were tried for" (shooting down a paymaster and his guard in a 1920 payroll holdup in South Braintree, Mass.). In 1932 Blitzstein used the theme for a one-act opera titled Condemned. The work was never produced (it was burdened with, among other things, four choruses), and Blitzstein says he forgot all about it. Last summer...