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These days King Freddie is being even more nettlesome than usual. This time his adversary is the Church of England, which has made half a million converts in Uganda, has long been tied to the forward-looking elements in the country. King Freddie, who was raised as an Anglican and crowned by the Bishop of Uganda himself, wants to divorce his attractive Queen Damali and marry her more vivacious older sister Sarah. He is annoyed that Anglican ecclesiastical law forbids it, has been hinting he might become a Moslem...
After 16 months of sabotage and threats, Rebel Fidel Castro vowed to start his vaunted "total war" this week against the regime of President Fulgencio Batista. As Cubans waited the call to a general strike and armed attacks, the usual wave of bombings and skirmishes gave way to ominous silence. Batista made ready for the showdown by asking his obedient Congress to vote him emergency powers, including the right to impose martial law, govern by decree, and use troops to meet any strike...
...handiwork of Philadelphia-born Composer Robert Parris, 33. who got the idea from his old pal and fellow student (at the Juilliard School of Music), Fred Begun, 29, currently the regular tympanist for the National Symphony. "I suggested five drums jestingly," says Begun (four drums is the usual orchestral maximum). Composer Parris. who has turned out a sizable quantity of chamber music, took the jest in earnest, sat down to write a piece which would test the "untapped melodic resources" of the drums. The technical problems, he discovered, were sizable. Examples: how to pass rapidly from one drum, fortissimo...
...place of their usual juicy tidbits about the doings of high society, Turkish gossip columns printed a curt and sober announcement last week: "Because of an agreement with the Turkish Newspaper Owners' Syndicate, we are discontinuing our society columns." Though the ban was made to seem a do-it-yourself affair, it was actually inspired by none other than Premier Adnan Menderes himself. The columnists, it seemed, had been giving too much gaudy publicity to The marriage of a former Miss Turkey to the mayor of Izmir, who also happens to be a cousin of the Premier...
Skip the Change. An automatic change dispenser for cash registers which speeds up supermarket checkouts by 30% was announced by National Cash Register Co. Instead of the usual two or three times that change is counted per transaction (with an average 15% error rate), the new machine registers the change due, tells the clerk how many bills to hand over, send the coins down a chute to the customer. Price...