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Although the Crosby boys, who have no illusions about their act, must sometimes want to buy a bowling alley and settle down, they have toured successfully for two years in such neon nirvanas as the Sahara Hotel in Las Vegas and Manhattan's Latin Quarter, where they played last week. The secret is conspiracy. The Latin Quarter pretends that it is wild and wicked. The vacationing dentists who jam its tables pretend that they are hugely entertained when the comedian kicks the M.C. Their wives counterfeit sophisticated smiles when bare-breasted show girls jiggle onstage. And when the Crosby...
...years, the second home of TIME Paris correspondent Edward Behr has been Algeria, which he has visited 45 times while logging a total of 14 months on the spot covering the Algerian war. He has patrolled with French paratroopers in the rugged Kabylia mountains, has crossed and recrossed the Sahara by Jeep, truck and light plane, turning up at times in spots so remote that they had never been seen before by anyone but nomads and the French camel corps. An Englishman who grew up in Paris speaking accentless French (he was a major in the British army during World...
...University of Algiers looked like the showroom of a sports-car dealer, and new apartment blocks were rising fast in well-to-do Hydra, a hilltop suburb of Algiers overlooking the sea. Adding to Algeria's bloom has been the discovery of oil in the Sahara...
Final Call. The dissident generals who seized Algiers last week had only one answer to the prospects of an F.L.N. takeover: a fight to the bitter end. The generals promised to arrest and try "the individuals having participated directly in the attempt to abandon Algeria and the Sahara"-a charge that presumably could be brought against De Gaulle himself...
...walked in Rome, as 200 admirers gathered to hear British Blackshirt Sir Oswald Mosley, 64, plump for a fascist Europe and African apartheid. In the dreamworld process of carving out a united and expanded Europe independent of cold war blocs, Mosley announced that "South Africa, part of Rhodesia, the Sahara and Algeria would belong to us. Blacks, if they like, could remain in the white zone-but without voting or civil rights. I think they would make out well just the same." On hand to introduce Sir Oswald at the neo-fascist rally was Expatriate Poet Ezra Pound...