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...1920s, Abd el Krim was a glamorous name on the world's front pages. A smallish, dark-skinned man with gentle eyes and a fringelike beard, he led his Riff tribesmen in the last romantic war of this century. In the U.S., the vision of Krim's snow-white turban, flowing djella-bah and spirited Arabian steed was put to music by Sigmund Romberg in Broadway's The Desert Song. In North Africa, his tenacious struggle against the armies of France and Spain sent a throb of nationalism through the Arab world...
Died. Abd el Krim, 81, fiery Riff rebel against the Spanish and French in the 1920s; of a heart attack; in Cairo (see THE WORLD...
...lopsidedly passed a joint resolution calling for a constitutional amendment authorizing an income tax. When a new income tax law went into effect in 1913, the top effective rate was 7%, but it soared to 77% due to World War I. The rates fell steeply during the 1920s but rebounded during the Great Depression, and have remained high ever since...
...love duet and a divorce ensemble took the place of a wedding march. He also wrote a one-act opera, Das Nusch-Nuschi, designed it for performance by Burmese marionettes, and worked in a parody of Tristan that outraged loyal Wagnerians. Since those high old days of the 1920s, Paul Hindemith has turned more serious, and his enormous output (including such masterpieces as the opera Mathis der Maler, the symphonies Symphonische Tänze and Die Harmonic der Welt) has established him as Germany's greatest living composer. But, at 67, he has not lost his ironic touch...
...report left Europe's automakers unmoved. They mostly agree that overcapacity will result if all present expansion plans are carried out, and they frankly admit that within the next few years they expect a shake-out similar to the one that rocked the U.S. auto industry in the 1920s. Says Fiat Vice Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, 40: "There are about 40 automobile manufacturers in Europe today; 20 of them will probably have disappeared by 1970." But Agnelli, along with most of his competitors, believes that it is the other fellow who will get hurt...