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Humbly, the Congressmen stood around drinking at a soundstage bar, watching a corps of almost nude ballerinas rehearsing as slave dancers-and waiting. Taylor did not show. Eddie Fisher arrived in a green Rolls-Royce and a matching polo shirt and began to mumble apologies. Spouting uncourtly remarks and parliamentary rhetoric, nine lawmakers-including New York's Adam Clayton Powell, chairman of the House Committee on Education and Labor, and North Carolina's Harold D. Cooley, chairman of the House Agriculture Committee-left the set. The remaining three loyally remained and were finally ushered into Cleopatra...
Assembly President Mangi Slim Family. Born Sept. 15, 1908, in Tunis, Mongi Slim (pronounced Monjee Sleem) is an improbable cross-breed of Mediterranean civilizations: Greek, Turkish and Arab. One great-grandfather, a Greek named Kafkalas, was captured as a boy by pirates, sold as a mameluke (white slave) to the Bey of Tunis, who educated him, freed him, made him his minister of defense. His paternal grandfather was an aristocratic Caid who ruled the wealthy province of Cape Bon. His mother was a member of the Beyrums, a noble Turkish family which had risen to prominence in Tunis, was famous...
...resounding setback was in the NSA executive committee's unanimous refusal to censure Vice President Timothy Jenkins for saying, "I think we now have unmasked in the final reality what exactly exists behind the facade of the conservative image, because we now see the base and debased colonial, repressive, slave- owning kind of mentality that can exist in a hard, fascist- type regime...
Died. Charles Dunbar Burgess King, 86, President of Liberia from 1920 to 1930, who resigned under fire when slave-running operations were uncovered in the African republic founded by freed U.S. slaves; after a long illness; in Monrovia...
...academic year with more (2,224) cadets than ever, the youngest service academy could well be proud of Dean McDermott's decision. He has al ready put over a rigorous "enrichment" program (since copied at Annapolis and West Point), in which more than three-fourths of the cadets slave for extra credit. He started a sabbatical program of sending instructors as far afield as Cambridge "to keep our staff up to date." He is pushing for a Master's program, the first at any service academy. Instead of congressional appointments, he wants a national competition to pick cadets...