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...Ghana's ex-dictator Kwame Nkrumah, 62, has lived in neighboring Guinea-of which he is officially "co-President"-since his overthrow in 1966. He is now apparently succumbing to cancer, probably in a hospital in Conakry, the Guinean capital...
Among the other treasures: crystal flutes; a ceramic horn from Germany, painted with blue flowers and glazed; fish-shaped slit drums from Japan; 5-in.-long fiddles that 18th century dancing masters carried in their pockets; Indian randsringas, a form of trumpet (left); New Guinea bull-roarers (wood carvings designed to roar when swung over the head on a string); and walking sticks that unfold into violins for instant serenades...
Imprisoned for a random murder, Alex (Malcolm McDowell) manages to have himself chosen as a guinea pig in a scientific experiment designed to rehabilitate him in two weeks. He submits to the Ludovico Technique, a behavioristic barrage of electric impulses and motion-picture film that cripples him with nausea at the mere thought of sex or violence. Thoroughly zapped, Alex is transformed into a kind of automaton, a clockwork orange, with no free will of his own. "As decent a lad as you would meet on a May morning!" gushes the Minister of the Interior (Anthony Sharp), who hopes...
...Bison's top players are All-Americans Keith Hequi and Alvin Henderson, both from Trinidad. Freshman Ian Bain, also from Trinidad and Guinea's Mori Biane round out Howard's forward wall. Strong goalkeeping has been provided this season by Samuel Tetteh from Ghana...
...neutron stars. Despite man's failure to pick up any interstellar communications, however, the entire galaxy could be filled with chatter between advanced civilizations, transmitted by a technique still undiscovered on earth. Says Carl Sagan: "We may be very much like the inhabitants of an isolated valley in New Guinea who communicate with villages in the next valley by drum and runner but have no idea that there is a vast international radio traffic going around them, over them and through them...