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Caloric Cuisine. Kir has enthusiastically "twinned" Dijon in friendship with 18 foreign cities, from Stalingrad to Kankan in Guinea to Dallas. And Kir sticks by his friends; he stoutly resisted a proposal, after the Kennedy assassination, to change the name of Dijon's Rue Dallas...
...clear and hopeful as the report was, it was shadowed by a storm in which a member of the Brooklyn hospital's board of trustees charged that the Brooklyn patients had been used "as guinea pigs ... in secret experiments . . . without their consent," that they had not been told what they were being injected with, and that their own doctors had not been told. Dr. Mandel conceded the patients had not been told that the injections were to be of cancer cells, but he insisted they had known they were being tested for immunity against cancer, and had given verbal...
...African nations that have achieved independence since the end of World War II (25 in 1960-63 alone), more than half have been racked by severe political and economic convulsions, ranging from the bloody civil wars of the Congo to virtual bankruptcy in Guinea to the assassination of a President in Togo. Under moderate leaders like Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere, independence has brought stability. Under Red-hot redeemers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, it has sometimes brought political repression and financial ruin...
...family long ago accepted his death, but the legal loose ends still remained to be cleared up. At last, in a Westchester, N.Y., surrogate's court, an affidavit was filed by his father to have Michael Rockefeller declared legally deceased. Lost two years ago off the southern New Guinea coast when his catamaran capsized, Mike at 23 left an estate of $660,000 in mixed investments. In the absence of a will, the money will go to his parents, Nelson Rockefeller and First Wife Mary Todhunter Clark Rockefeller...
...welcome might be more satisfactory in countries that have or need Chinese technicians, loans and trade agreements-Algeria, Guinea, Ghana, Mali. Elsewhere, Chou's reception promises to range from the cool to the curious, roughly the way it was back in Cheng...