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...usermann sees no reason why his egg houses need nest in solitary splendor on the beach or perch on the edge of cliffs. For Paris he is just finishing an athletic club unlike anything ever seen before. On Spain's Costa Brava he is designing a whole resort town that will grow out of the rocks like a bulbous cactus. These days, Häusermann likes to recall that when he presented as a student project three great pyramidal structures honeycombed with individual oval living units, his professors objected that "Pretty soon the planet will be covered with nothing...
...given to scandalous public poses as an overt homosexual and self-confessed drug user. But unlike Oscar Wilde, who tripped and fell into the gutter of Victorian reality while trying to walk his mystic way, Cocteau, for all of his histrionics and acrobatics, always managed to regain a safe perch. He was somehow able to have his cakewalking, eat his opium, and yet wind up a middle-class immortal, a member of that superrespectable college of venerables, the Académie Française...
...dreary Normandy resort town, Jean Gabin maintains a precarious perch on the wagon. Once France's biggest lush, Gabin has sworn off the stuff since a dark moment of the war and he hasn't wavered since. But into this town stumbles Jean-Paul Belmondo, Gabin's heir apparent to the drinking title...
...leader, Abdul Qawee Mackawee, who is in self-imposed exile in the Egyptian-controlled part of Yemen. Later, two snipers in a mosque minaret fired upon some of the 12,000 mourners in a street funeral procession for Mackawee's sons; a mob rushed up to their perch and hurled them to the street, where they were trampled to death. Though the nationalists seemed to be maiming one another at first, the surging street crowds soon began blaming the bloodshed on the British. Two British women were killed by a Czech-made bomb planted by a servant...
Hurled from a Perch. Once a bastion guarding the shipping lanes of the Empire, barren, steamy Aden today has commercial value only as a bunkering port at the entrance to the Red Sea (the colony has oil refineries but no known oil). Last year the British bowed to nationalist demands and announced that they would grant independence in 1968 to a South Arabian federation of Aden and 16 neighboring sheikdoms. The concession only heated up the long-smoldering terrorism. From the fanatical National Liberation Front to the moderate South Arabian League, each nationalist faction tried to outdo the other...