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Died. Moe Gale, 65, co-founder and longtime proprietor (1926-54) of Harlem's once famed, now torn-down Savoy Ballroom, where happy feet first stomped out the Lindy Hop, Big Apple and Susie-Q, and such cats as Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basic, and Chick Webb first strutted their swinging stuff; after a long illness; in Manhattan...
...century ago, terror stalked the coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania. Men were gunned down on the open road and even in their own parlors. Informers had their ears cut off and their tongues torn out by the roots. Dynamite destroyed mine tipples and derailed freight trains. In one coal-mining county alone, there were 142 unsolved murders in 13 years...
...hardly any of them are really democratic. Forced to live as nations although their loyalties and organizations are tribal, torn by all the monstrous problems of backwardness and ignorance, Africa's new countries have found democracy far too difficult to live with. So far, at least 18 of them have effectively eliminated the opposition and inaugurated one-party rule. Few of the rest seem at all convinced that Western democracy has meaning in Africa. Last week, after eight months of independence, Kenya also set its course for the one-party...
...being celibate or marrying, if they wish to do so. Last year he left the Dominican order and in defiance of the church authorities published his arguments in a book called The Priestly State - Marriage or Celibacy? Recalling the early days of solitude in Aix-en-Provence, after having torn himself from the only life that was his since boyhood, he said: "I walked the windswept streets making the unconscious gesture of touching my new suit, feeling for the robe that was no longer there...
...Laos, two-thirds controlled by Communists, French investment still stands at $4,000,000. French interests in neighboring, neutralist Cambodia total $50 million, chiefly in rubber plantations that provide jobs for 20,000 and bring in $15 million a year in foreign currency. But it is in fertile, war-torn South Viet Nam that France has its strongest hold and greatest stake: about $320 million in investments...