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Though the genial, toddy-swigging Ceylonese love political oratory and revel in elections, they are not very good at issuing a mandate. Last week's election was no exception. In the voting for 151 parliamentary seats, Madame's Freedom Party took a bad beating. Though carrying her own constituency, she and her Marxist allies could muster only 55 seats. Dudley Senanayake's U.N.P. captured 66 seats, an impressive advance but still not enough to form either a majority or a government...
Last December 24, a large party of Portuguese soldiers were celebrating Christmas Eve in a bar in the village of Miteda, a tiny outpost in the jungles of Portugal's African colony of Mozambique. In the midst of the revel, a small band of heavily-armed Africans slipped unnoticed out of the forests and surrounded the village. Grenades went flying into the bar, and machine guns opened up on the Portuguese as they spilled out of the crumbling building; 113 soldiers were killed. The guerillas disappeared into the jungle with their first major victory. A new African revolution was underway...
...needed a victory more than Moise Tshombe, and last week he could revel in a big one. His army had retaken Albertville, the first major city captured by the rebels, who for more than two months had used its Lake Tanganyika port to ferry in arms and supplies from their headquarters in Burundi...
When an unknown director turns out a suspense melodrama as dreary and unconvincing as this, moviegoers revel in the thought of what it might have been if Hitchcock had done it. It is disconcerting to come away from Mamie feeling precisely the same...
Each of the three has discovered in the trio a reward beyond mere music. "There are many miraculous little things that happen during each performance," says Rose. "We play to one another in a sort of musical conversation." Says Stern: "Music is something to revel in - and when we play together we revel. I'm so proud of this trio I want to shout it from the housetops...