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...local U.N. troops for sanctuary. Then Kashamura began to fear Gizenga assassins under his bed-and also asked U.N. protection. When he finally ventured out of hiding, he was still nervous. Startled by a commotion in the hall outside his fourth-floor office in Bukavu's Riviera Hotel, he leaped for the window; friends had to restrain him from jumping out. One day last week Anicet Kashamura quietly vanished, and was last seen speeding down the road toward Stanleyville in the custody of Gizenga's agents...
University astronomer Donald H. Menzel will be among astronomers from all over the world who will invade the Italan Riviera this month. The astronomers will study a 2 minute 45 second eclipse of the sun expected to take place on the morning of February...
Invited to join a Rome Observatory expedition to Imperia on the Riviera, Menzel, Director of the Observatory, leaves on Saturday for Paris en route to Italy...
Died. Harry Piker, 75, New York-born entertainer who became a celebrity in the 19203 as the dancing partner of French Sex Symbols Mistinguett and Gaby Deslys, and who later switched to emceeing the live entertainment in Riviera casinos; of a heart attack; in Cannes, France...
Guarding the Pool. In Cuba Castro continued his tawdry little melodrama of "invasion." He lined the Havana waterfront with Russian tanks, field guns, four-barreled antiaircraft guns and antitank weapons. One band of defenders mounted a newly arrived 12.7-mm. Czech machine gun on the cabanas of the Habana Riviera Hotel, strategically overlooking a bathing beauty near the pool below. Militiamen took up positions inside Havana's San Francisco Roman Catholic Church and two Catholic schools, mined bridges and fanned out around the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo...