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...high office in Colombia and as the constructive head of the Organization of American States, Alberto Lleras Camargo ranks as Latin America's most creative democratic statesman. He is also a friend and admirer of the U.S., happy that his country is "governed by institutions that have their origin in Philadelphia." In Washington last week for a state visit, President Lleras thus won a special warmth and spoke words of special weight. His subject was the "backwardness" of Latin America-Lleras is too frank to call it "underdevelopment...
...baffling exhortation is part of the caller's spiel for a new dance known as "the Madison." Deejays and pressagents argue endlessly about whether its name derives from the familiar avenue in the Negro section of Baltimore, a Detroit ballroom, or a bar in Cleveland, but whatever its origin, the Madison was showing signs last week of developing into the biggest dance craze since the Big Apple...
...that Iannucci (who once ran something that he called the Junior Animal Shelter in Hamden, just outside New Haven) had bought animals from dog wardens in adjacent towns for $2 or $3 each, had then sold them to the Yale bureau of purchases, which knew nothing of their origin, for an average...
...those who have seen Kenyatta recently say that in his 60s he is an alcoholic wreck. There are younger challengers to Mboya too, and his Luo origin remains a handicap among the Kikuyu, who resent the fact that the Luos stayed out of the Mau Mau troubles and inherited good jobs in Nairobi...
...lodge. Last month the boys were gathering at the Snow Leopard to sip their pastis, discuss business conditions, and wait for the tribesmen on their way down from the hills with their annual offering of confiture (jam), the local nickname for opium. Most of the boys have a Mediterranean origin: Couscous, a wiry North African; Carlo the Corsican; a Eurasian called Moitie Gnakouey; and a clutch of characters of vaguely French antecedents-Petit Pere, La Seche Noire (the Black Cigarette), Le Gorille Gris (the Grey Gorilla...