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...spare time in Florida on the 160-acre ranch that his father, newly reconciled, runs for him. "I feel like the Marlboro man there," he says. But increasingly the Marlboro man is being lured back to Hollywood to woo the Perle Mesta of the Bel Air set, Dinah Shore. It all began when Dinah, 19 years his senior, had Burt on her show last summer. Oscar Levant once said he couldn't watch Dinah because he had diabetes. But, as Dinah tells it, the show she did with Burt would have been X-rated...
...involvements of his own. He plans to keep his professorship at Rutgers University (philosophy of education, Afro-American and urban education), drawing only a part-time salary from Abyssinian. At the same time the Virginia-born educator promises to preach three Sundays a month at the church and shore up its sagging administration. Abyssinian, the oldest major black Baptist church in the North, could use some reinvigoration. It was no secret to anyone that Adam Powell preferred sunning in the Bahamas to sweating it out in Harlem. As Powell's political fortunes and popularity waned during his last years...
...inevitable that sooner or later doubts about the value of at least one of these currencies would put the system to a severe test. The test came last week, when an explosion of currency speculation left the whole network of rates badly shaken, and moneymen scurried to shore...
...world's industrial nations) have produced staggering effects on the look of the country. Italians put their oil refineries on the coast, usually siting them with a grotesque disregard for the environment in now vanishing beauty spots like Portovenere. Some 4,000 miles of the country's shore line is permanently fouled by oil slicks and industrial wastes from 140,000 coastal factories. Inland, the dumping of industrial wastes has become so chronic that Milanese rice, once the staple of every decent risotto, grows poorly if at all on hundreds of thousands of once fertile acres. Cities that...
Savage fighting spread throughout the country. In the south, armed bands of Hutus seized control of the towns of Bururi and Rumonge and killed hundreds of Tutsi. On the shore of Lake Tanganyika, a force of 600 rebels occupied the town of Nyanza-Lac and drove off low-flying military planes with cascades of fire. "Everywhere," reported one pilot, "you see dead bodies...