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...ingenuity. The American style reflects a questing spirit, a desire for change and investigation, an irreverence for authority that has lasted since 1776, a built-in dissatisfaction with the status quo. The American system is a constant seeking of practical means to an end. "Americans," says French Humorist Pierre Da-ninos, "adapted naturally to the modern environment. They seem to be born into this age, born to make long-distance calls, hop international flights or act in films...
...allies, however, view his campaign as an anti-Nasser, anti-left alliance. Almost nightly, Cairo radio rakes Feisal as "the bearded bigot" and the "Pope of Islam." "We hear someone who says he is pursuing the way of unity," Nasser sneered of Feisal in a speech last week in Da-manhur. "But we find he is in effect unifying reactionary forces." Feisal replies calmly to such attacks. "My task," he once said, "is with my people and my country, not with others...
...infrequently in Portugal, fado has lately fallen into a state of flux. Many of the old fado taverns, looking for the tourist dollar, are pushing pop fado, an attempt to internationalize the art by adding drums and clarinet to the traditional guitar accompaniment. Its chief exponent is sunny Maria da Fe, 24, who sings such classics as It's as Empty and Cold as My Heart to a sizzling jazz beat. Pop fado has also given rise to such variations as the upbeat "new-look fado" and "fado blues." And at the University of Coimbra, the students have turned...
...such beautiful work that when he came to trial, all hands agreed that even in France, where 80% of the world's fake currency is produced, Bojarsky deserved the title "the Leonardo da Vinci of Forgers." Almost regretfully, police packed him off to La Prison Centrale in Melun last week to begin serving a 20-year term. But, sighed Emile Benamou, director of France's National Center for the Repression of Forgers, and the man who spent 13 years tracking down Bojarsky, "His qualities as an artist are marvelous. Had it been dollars that he was making...
Drunken Ducks. The problems inherent in helicopters make such prowess the more remarkable. Leonardo da Vinci sketched a rudimentary rotor craft in 1483, but even after Russian-born Igor Sikorsky introduced the U.S.'s first successful commercial version 25 years ago, copters remained so cantankerous as to be largely experimental. The indispensable element of a copter is the rotor, which enables it to take off and land on a dime, hover, fly in any direction, land on a dead engine. Spinning, a rotor not only tends to whirl the body of the machine in the opposite direction but makes...