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...spacious Celebration Hall of Cairo University last week 500 delegates from more than 40 countries rallied under a huge banner showing two hands, one light and one dark, clasped around a torch that lit up the outlines of Asia and Africa. A milling throng of students waved a banner that read DOWN WITH THE EISENHOWER DOCTRINE; from the gallery, schoolgirls shouted: "No bases-no pacts -no H-bomb...
Batista is angry as well as sad. Though the army and most of organized labor are still his, he cannot put down the revolt, has managed only to spur it with clumsy counterterrorism. Risking shoot-on-sight orders, Castro partisans are putting the torch to the budding sugar-cane crop on which the Cuban economy depends. The army said it shot four rebels in the cane fields last week. "Criminals!" shouts Batista now. "Communists...
...works are too brutal to sit comfortably close together in the whitewashed, antiseptic setting of museum walls; they look best against the rolling mountains and lakeshore on which his Lake George studio faces. His Man and Woman in Cathedral (opposite) was jigsawed out of steel plate with an acetylene torch. "The name came merely because of the male and female in a vertical structural relationship." says Smith. "I named it afterward. The structure seemed kind of gothic, so that's how come 'cathedral.' When I work I don't name things. These damned words people have...
...Also last week he learned that he was the object of a nightclub torch song called I Made a Fool of Myself Over John Foster Dulles. Singer: pert Texas Redhead Carol Burnett, 24, at Manhattan's Blue Angel. Sample lyrics (by Ken Welch...
...Jayne Mansfield. If the fun bogs slightly and if some of the gags have family reunions in the end, Director Tashlin may be forgiven for too-muching his good thing. Hollywood has every right to try beating its rival's antennas with TV's own fallen torch...