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...anniversary speech, Mobutu called the Congo "the rising star of Africa." With the mercenaries gone-they signed a pledge never again to fight in Africa-and the country on a more sensible course at least temporarily, the Congo finally has a chance. It is richer in natural resources-copper, tin, cobalt, industrial diamonds-than almost any other African nation. With the opportunity to exploit them in peace, it could become a model of prosperity rather than of chaos...
...work classified as either abstract or figurative, dislikes even having it pinned down as either "large" or "small." All that he is prepared to concede is that he spends at least eight hours a day pounding, twisting and welding together the sheets and found scraps of steel, aluminum, chrome, tin and copper that jam to overflowing the two back-to-back garages he uses as a studio on Chicago's North Cleveland Street...
Wednesday, October 11 KRAFT MUSIC HALL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). *George Burns hosts "Tin Pan Alley Today," with Guests Dionne Warwick, Dick Cavett, the Harper's Bizarre, Tony Tanner, Nancy Ames, Sergio Mendes and Brasil...
...Bass Ronnie Drew, 33, whose voice is like nothing so much as a bullfrog with a hangover, bestraddles the line with occasional forays a mile or so off pitch. Tenor Luke Kelly, 26, gives out what might be the mating call of a rusty file. Banjoist Barney McKenna, 27, Tin Whistler Ciaron Bourke, 32, and Fiddler John Sheahan, 28, round out the onslaught with glorious disregard for niceties such as time or tune...
...fields which average more than 105 degrees during the summer. There are no toilets in the fields. Drinking water is allotted according to the number of bushels picked. The number is arbitrary depending upon the foreman's mood. The migrants live in tents, the regulars in long tin huts. By the time most of the children are 12 years old, they've quit school and work with their parents in the fields. Nobody earns more than $1.40 per hour picking grapes...