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...risks of being in high risk are sizable. The death of Tyrone Power while filming Solomon and Sheba cost Fireman's Fund Insurance Co. of San Francisco $1,350,000. U.S. companies that had insured the manufacturers of thalidomide suffered losses when the drug proved harmful to the unborn. Insurance Co. of North America wrote $7,800,000 in premiums on aviation insurance in 1959, but lost money on the insurance because of a rash of air crashes that year. Other high-risk insurers paid off nearly $1,000,000 on the gas explosion under the stands at Indianapolis...
Sources close to the crust indicated last night that Miss Shirley Booth, Academy Award winning actress for her role in Come Back Little Sheba, will receive the Hasty Pudding's Woman-of-the-Year award some time early next spring...
...centuries, Ethiopia's proud Amharas-who claim descent from a night's roistering between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba-shunned black Africans as barya (slaves). But when the emerging black African states began getting voice in world affairs, the Emperor started to fire off letters to nationalist politicians all over the continent, condemning imperialism and hailing the once despised barya as "our beloved black brothers." This week at Addis Ababa's new $3,000,000 Africa Hall, he plays host to the U.N.'s traveling special committee on colonialism. The Emperor hopes that such...
...smoke and perfumed ether. On the floor below, three dance bands, thousands of voices, brigades of clinking bottles and the hypnotic hop of feet endlessly sambaing built a solid wall of sound. In the midst of the jammed dancers, 24-year-old Gilda Lopes, clad in a Queen of Sheba wisp of gauze and sequins, shimmied deliriously on a table top, drinking in masculine ogles as a parched field drinks the spring rain. She lost not a beat as she explained her costume: "It's like the one Lollobrigida wore in the movie, except that Gina...
LIKE all Ethiopian royalty, curly-bearded Emperor Haile Selassie traces his ancestry back to the match between King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. His Semite-Hamite blood lines show in his stern jaw and aquiline nose. But in practical fact, his hold on the Ethiopian throne has been due less to ancestry than to his ability to outplot Ethiopia's best plotters...