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Born. To Geraldine Chaplin, 30, Sir Charles Chaplin's cinemactress daughter (Doctor Zhivago, The Three Musketeers), and her lover of eight years, Spanish Film Director Carlos Saura, 43: their first child, a son; in Madrid. Name: Shane...
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti conducting; London, $6.98). Solti's way with Berlioz, Wagner, Mahler and Strauss stamps him as a Romantic and post-Romantic conductor without superior. This megatonic Rite now confirms his mastery of the contemporary idiom. Where Pierre Boulez etches in cold objectivity, Solti paints in swirling shapes and colors. The effect is electrifying...
...Cocaine, which could be obtained legally, was widely used at the time. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes, who injects a "seven-per-cent solution" at the opening of The Sign of the Four, was supposedly a cocaine freak. A new book appropriately titled The Seven-Per-Cent Solution even has Holmes lured to Vienna, where Freud helps him kick the habit...
Botswana's growth has proceeded smoothly, largely because of the policies of burly, Oxford-educated President Sir Seretse Khama, 53, a forceful advocate of both multiracial democracy (the population is about 98% black) and a mixed economy. Other black African regimes have leaped to 100% nationalization of foreign interests, but Sir Seretse has limited his government's share of Botswana's mineral income to part ownership of mining operations plus tax revenues. Plenty of profit and incentive remain for foreign investors, chiefly from the U.S. and neighboring South Africa...
This arrangement has been strongly endorsed both by Botswana's voters, who gave Sir Seretse a landslide election victory in his bid for another five-year term last October, and by Western aid programs. Canada has financed a dam in the northeast to store scarce water, and the U.S. has loaned $16 million for the building of a 200-mile all-weather road to Botswana's northern border. Britain, Sweden, Norway and the United Nations have committed $31 million in grants and loans, mostly for manpower training and rural development...