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...pick up women while women who pick up men are presumed to be prostitutes, Danner gets herself arrested. At her trial the next day, the barely mussed carefully made-up liberated lady is so stupefied by her night in jail that she is unable to open her mouth, whereupon hubby gallantly wins the case for her. Sic transit Gloria Steinem...
...meeting in Zambia was by Black Africa. Nonetheless, with so many illustrious and sometimes clashing luminaries under one roof, there were bound to be fireworks. One such incident occurred when Castro declared that Moscow was the nonaligned world's best friend in the fight against U.S. imperialism. Whereupon Prince Sihanouk took to the floor and, without bothering with a microphone, began vigorously dissenting. "We fully respect the Soviet Union," he declared. "But one thing we cannot understand is why Moscow maintains diplomatic relations with the Lon Nol clique of traitors with whom we are fighting...
Forward Bent Hinze, who discovered halfway through last season that the environmental studies major he had planned to take did not in fact exist at Harvard, agreed to stay on until the end of the Fall whereupon he returned for good to his native Norway...
...four supreme Yoruban tribal kings, the Alaf-in, Lamidi Olayiwola Adeyemi, 34, is a thoroughly modern man who believes, as he puts it, that "it is still possible to live by old traditions in modern times." He spearheaded a drive that raised $30,000 for local development, whereupon an impressed regional government chipped in $60,000 for his projects. "I have told my people," he says, "that if they can save substantial sums of money in banks, they will attract loan capital to improve commercial and industrial life." An insurance broker before being installed as Alafin...
Scali argued that passage of the resolution could only exacerbate Middle East tensions, since Israel clearly has no intention of giving up the territories without negotiations with the Arab states. Despite Scali's efforts, the majority of the council last week endorsed the resolution-whereupon Scali vetoed it. It was only the fifth time in the U.N.'s 27-year history that the U.S. Government had resorted to this ultimate weapon in the Security Council...