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Veiled women shrilled their adulation, and students bore him on their shoulders through the streets when Habib Bourguiba returned from exile to lead Tunisia to independence. They cheered again when he deposed the old Bey of Tunis and had himself proclaimed President of the new republic. But in the last year there has been a change in the smiling, accessible Bourguiba. Since he moved into the President's palace, he has become increasingly autocratic, petulant and impatient of criticism. Ambassadors were instructed to bow three times on withdrawing from his presence-a custom imposed by the Bey whom Bourguiba...
...controversial." The administration became excited when a speech was reported in which only one side of a disputed question was aired; this, they felt, allied the Summer School with that one side. In the midst of the tense week of the Middle East crisis the Summer News bore the lead headline: "Education, Security Conferences mark Week...
...casket-choosing scenes can be a bore, too. But Jay, doubling as the Prince of Arragon, emerged as a delightful fop. Robert Evans made the Prince of Morocco a glum, dead-pan character, with unfortunate results; the only way to save him is to play him for comedy, as Earle Hyman did so tellingly last year...
Sweeping through a subarctic fog one morning last week, the Icelandic patrol boats Maria Julia and Thor bore down on a pair of British trawlers that had dropped their nets within seven miles of Iceland's coast. The Icelanders had succeeded in getting nine men aboard the trawler Northern Foam when the British frigate Eastbourne charged at flank speed onto the scene. The nine boarders were quickly subdued, bundled into a motor launch and ferried back to Thor. But Thor's skipper refused to accept them, on grounds that the British had used coercion in removing them from...
Divorced from Hungarian Writer Josef Bard after four years of marriage, Dorothy returned to the U.S. in 1928 to embark on a new career: wife to Novelist Sinclair Lewis. As energetic a spouse as she was reporter, she gave up heavy reading for menu planning, bore Lewis a son, hosted his parties. But as Dorothy and "Red" drifted apart (they separated in 1937), she took on more and more work...