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King Mohammed, who claims the rocky Mauritania desert south of Morocco as his own, was annoyed last week because France agreed to give Mauritania its independence. Mohammed promptly ordered the closing of two French consulates near the Algerian border. The announced reason was the recent French bombardment of two Moroccan villages. A more compelling, if unstated, reason was that these consular districts enabled the French to keep tabs on the movement of F.L.N. men and arms across the border...
...three disabilities that pelvis-twirling Elvis Presley might most fear are a sore throat, a dislocated hip, or an injury to his guitar-strumming paw. During his recent Army draftee stint he was briefly silenced by tonsillitis. Last week, during a touch-football game in home-town Memphis, Elvis dived at the ball carrier, broke the little finger of his string-zinging hand. His hips, however, are still swinging...
...shows, such as NBC's Meet the Press and CBS's Face the Nation and Presidential Countdown, have kept the candidates steaming under glass. Always at their best when covering events as they actually happen, the networks' cameras were brilliantly active during the U.N.'s recent parliament of fouls, picking up everything from Mr. K's desk pounding to Fidel Castro bearding pedestrians outside his Harlem hotel...
...Twentieth Century may last until 1999. Always imaginative in its approach to recent history, the program will leave its usual format next week to do a novel portrait of Middle Linebacker Sam Huff of the New York Giants. A small trans mitter was sewed into Huff's padding during practice sessions and an exhibition game with the Chicago Bears, yielding such odd fragments as a defensive signal that goes "Brigitte Bardot double blitz" and a sharp warning from Huff to an elbow-throwing Bear: "You do that one more time, 88, and I'm going to sock...
WHILE economists disagree on the immediate future course of U.S. business (see State of Business), they all agree on one basic premise: the U.S. economy has undergone such a profound change in recent years that the old tools to measure its size and health are no longer adequate. The biggest sector of the economy is no longer the production of such tangibles as appliances, cars, houses; it is the performance of services, ranging from medical checkups to European trips and cha-cha lessons. In this new economy, there are 33 million employed in performing services compared to only 27 million...