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...about to leave for the office when the telephone began ringing in his New York apartment. He picked it up offhandedly. A second later, listening to the voice of the strange man on the other end of the wire, he felt a shock of mingled hope and alarm. The stranger began by suavely explaining that his name was "Costapeter," and that he was just in from Rumania. Rumanian-born Valeriu Georgescu understood instantly. He had been stranded in New York during a visit in 1947 by Communist seizure of the Rumanian oil industry, had long since been an executive...
...days of Scheherazade; its sturdy peasantry, like 11 million other Northern Moslems, loftily disdain the nimbler-witted Ibos and Yorubas who dominate Southern Nigeria. When Emir Abdullah's decision was announced, Haussa and Fulani alike broke away from their mosque and poured into the Saba N'Gari (Stranger's Quarter), where 60,000 Ibos and Yorubas conduct Kano's retail business. Rioting went on for three days; when it was all over last week, 45 were dead, 200 injured. Speechmaker Akintola was bundled into a government plane and shipped back South, where he promptly indicted...
...courtly, white-haired stranger slipped into the U.S. Ambassador's residence in Ottawa one day last month. No one was home. A crew of painters was giving the big, slightly run-down sandstone mansion its first inside coat of paint in five years. The visitor poked among the sheeted furniture, inspected the fireplaces and the upstairs bedrooms. Before deciding whether or not to accept his appointment as the new U.S. Ambassador to Canada, R (for Robert) Douglas Stuart, 67, wanted a look at the house in which he and Mrs. Stuart would have to live...
Professional Advice. In Sacramento, a stranger joined Robert L. Bowen in a bar, warned him against carrying his wallet in his hip pocket, demonstrated how easily it could be stolen, a few drinks later, disappeared with...
Shane (Paramount) is as high-styled a Technicolored horse opera as moviegoers are likely to see this year. It tells the familiar old western yarn about the good guy v. the badmen. The mysterious stranger named Shane (Alan Ladd) befriends a couple of turn-of-the-century Wyoming homesteaders (Van Heflin and Jean Arthur) and their nine-year-old son (Brandon de Wilde). Having helped the "sodbusters" fight off a group of villainous cattlemen who are trying to grab their land, Shane just as mysteriously rides off into the blue distance...