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...Indonesian capital of Djakarta, the municipal government last year took in $6,000,000, a third of its revenue, from three licensed casinos, numerous slot machines, horse racing, greyhound races, jai alai and a local lottery. The Casino Pix, located on the 13th floor of the Sarinah Department Store, is hardly plush as casinos go. The clients are apt to shun tie and jacket for open sports shirts. There is no alcohol, no floor show, no music-but big winners are provided with a ride home to protect their cash. "Elsewhere it is the bandits who benefit," says Djakarta...
...Millard Fillmore Institute is Bear's most sincere tribute: he discovered in an encyclopedia that the nation's 13th President had turned down an honorary degree from Oxford on the grounds that he did not deserve it. Bear's aim: to promote a resurgence of Fillmore's rectitude...
Dogs barked, cats hissed, turtles raced and gerbils skittered all over Ethel Kennedy's Hickory Hill. The 13th annual pet show for the benefit of Northwest Settlement House (admission $3.50) was making the welkin ring with the help of highly amplified announcements by Humorist Art Buchwald, in full ringmaster's regalia. Seven of Ethel's eleven offspring were on hand, and so was Uncle Ted-Ted Kennedy, the painter, that is. Next day, his painting Red Shack brought the high bid of $3,000 at an art auction in Boston for the benefit of the Kennedy Library...
...Madison Square. A half-century later came Fidel ("I am not a Communist") Castro, briefly a hero of U.S. journalism during the black-and-white-television era. He was, he said, fighting for a Cuba where "everyone could assemble, associate, speak and write with complete freedom." Now in his 13th year of power, "the Horse" (as Cubans call Castro) has already found it necessary, by his own admission, to shoot 3,500 of his countrymen and imprison 20,000 more...
...13th century, Arab weavers are said to have discovered that instead of snipping unneeded lengths of twine from finished products, they could braid it into an attractive, decorative fringe with a series of simple knots. Slowly the technique spread north to Europe. In 1689 when William of Orange became King of England, his wife, Queen Mary, introduced the fascinating art of macramé (from the Arab rnigrarmah, meaning ornamental braid or fringe) to palace circles. The Incas and American Indians had their own versions. Sometimes widely popular, sometimes kept alive only by seamen to whom knotting was both work...