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...Nationalist colleagues have cried the Black Peril and built up racial tension, reticent Havenga has secluded himself in his Pretoria office or at his Free State horse farm. There he has brooded over the country's shortage of dollar exchange. He visited the U.S. last year, tried in vain to drum up a loan, discovered that his government's oppression of its black majority was giving South Africa a bad name abroad...
...opening night last month a glamorous audience paid up to $25 a seat to hear La Bohème. The performance was doomed from the start. Derisive whistles greeted the tenor's vain struggles for the high notes. After the soprano's first-act aria, a critic cracked: "They call me Mimi, but my name is Brünnhilde...
Nighttime Nibble. Two months ago while 2,000 hand-picked carabinieri scoured Sicily's wind-whipped hills in a vain search for Giuliano, Meldolesi hinted to Italian editors that the celebrated "Robin Hood of Sicily" had invited him to his hideout. Only Editor Edilio Rusconi of Milan's weekly Oggi (Today) fell for Meldolesi's story. Rusconi assigned a top reporter to work with him, paid 800,000 lire (about $1,300) for the promised beat...
...phai là nhung nguoi dã chet vô ích . . ." With this stirring Vietnamese rendition of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address (". . . we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain . . ."), the U.S. State Department this week got ready to launch a new kind of cold war against Communism in the Far East-propaganda by the comic-book method...
Newsmen seeking confirmation and comment searched in vain for Ingrid's husband, Dr. Peter Lindstrom, who has not seen her, except for a grim two-day visit, since she went to Italy in March to make a "different" movie. "Lolly" Parsons' story was two days old before anyone penetrated the Roman seclusion of Ingrid and Director Rossellini. Then the New York Times's studious Vatican correspondent, Camille M. Cianfarra, interviewed them in Ingrid's apartment. While the Swedish actress poured strong black coffee, Reporter Cianfarra managed to ask whether she was to become a mother early...