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...still forbidden to say Mass. Because of his suspension, he was acclaimed by his countrymen as a victim of discrimination and elected mayor of Brazzaville in 1956. Exploiting Congolese superstitions, he soon had many voters convinced that his personal fetish, a small yellow crocodile, had "the power." With the advent of independence, Youlou was elected Premier and President, promising his new nation "tomorrows that sing...
While many of those enrolled in the summer school will merely be moving out of one dorm on one campus to another dorm at a different city next September for Harvard students in Cambridge the advent of exams has a slightly different meaning...
...More Nudes. Surfboard riding did not really make a West Coast splash until the advent of a 1959 cinespectacle called Gidget. Teen-age Heroine Gidget (Sandra Dee) was the pelvic oracle of surfdom. After her came the surf bums, the peroxided boys and girls who at first gave surfing a bad name-and not only because of their outlandish hairdos. Throbbing to guitars at midnight twist parties, they were fond of nudity and occasional ransacking of beach homes. But slowly the genuine challenge of the sport attracted a better ilk, and bit by bit an entire subculture emerged...
...what is more likely, she suggests, is that she will retire from movies with the advent of marriage. She quite frankly anticipates a family of nine children and it is more probable than not that this will occupy her full time...
...Scottish baron who kidnaped a bishop in a dispute over land, and to make amends endowed a hostel for 16 indigent scholars at Oxford. The resulting college went on to harbor such notables as John Wycliffe and Adam Smith, but its star did not really rise until the advent of Benjamin Jowett, the great classicist who took over as master in 1870, molding men and minds for 23 years...