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Reluctantly recognizing Tshombe's claims for broad-based support, President Joseph Kasavubu appointed him informateur-the man charged with sounding out all political parties on the possibilities of forming a new government. Such an appointment might only be an attempt to provide Tshombe with enough political rope to hang himself. One could not really say that the promises of allegiance that Tshombe was getting would remain firmly in his control. But even if he fails in his search for reconciliation, he still has his political base of Katanga to fall back upon. And mineral-rich Katanga is the linchpin...
...overall evening is actually part fraudville and part vaudeville, and the vaudeville is quite good. A skillful little dog stands on one paw on its master's outstretched thumb. A girl spins and whirls in the middle of a rope whose ends are held in the teeth of two men. The sexiest item of the evening is a stripteasing marionette, who bumps, grinds, twists, and removes her bra to reveal the best shape on the hot side of the footlights. Patachou, the evening's headliner, is a once-great stylist who still has a touch of Piaf...
...cooperation of the Arabs. He took the opening picture in the color pages-a view of the Aswan cofferdam-with an F-8 Fairchild camera from a DC-3 owned by a United Arab Republic airline. With the door removed from the plane, Lowry stood in the open, a rope lashed around his waist and an chored to the tie-down rings. He took the picture on the last color page-a gold and green view of Giza-from a helicopter flown by a U.A.R. Air Force crew, firing away with his F-8 from a sitting position...
...went under almost instantly. The man fought the current to get to her, but wound up 50 yards farther out and some 100 yards from shore. Friends heard the couple cry for help, but could not buck the waves. In the end it took four men, one surfboard, one rope and the local fire department to bring them in. The woman was in pretty good shape, but the man was unconscious and needed artificial respiration, was carted home on a stretcher and put to bed. Friends were astonished when he got up at 7 o'clock sharp the following...
Snare drums roll. Spotlights lattice the darkness and zero in on a trim brunette and a dangling hook. She thrusts the hook into a ring knotted in her hair, and while spectators watch in disbelief the rope tautens, and slowly she is lifted up and up through the elephant-scented air until she is dangling 73 ft. high. Then she calmly starts juggling three pastel Indian clubs, all the while hanging by her hair...