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...L.S.U.'s biggest hurdle, and the victory extended the team's streak to 19 games, all but cinched a Sugar Bowl invitation and a national championship. As always, L.S.U. played just well enough to win. As usual, the man who supplied the clutch play was Billy Abb Cannon, 22, one of the most remarkable athletes around...
...long as the French were in control, the rivalry between the territory's two leading politicians was kept in hand. The flamboyant Abbé Fulbert Youlou-a Roman Catholic priest who is forbidden to say Mass but still wears a soutane-has long favored keeping a firm tie with France, once blurted in a fit of candor that is rare in Africa these days: "We will need French aid until the year X." His longtime rival, Socialist Jacques Opangault, dreams of the day when the former territories of French Equatorial Africa will be united in a federation...
...quickly degenerated from a political brawl to old-fashioned warfare. Throughout the native quarters of Bacongo and Poto-Poto, Balali tribesmen, loyal to the abbé, and the M'Boshi went after each other with everything from broken bottles to the deadly assagai-the short spear used by Chaka, the "Black Napoleon," to conquer his 19th century Zulu empire. At first the M'Boshi in their white headdresses proved more adept at carving up their enemies just as their ancestors used to do, but the Balalis, wearing leaves in their hair, retaliated by setting whole blocks...
...abbé slapped a curfew on Brazzaville, went on the air to plead for calm, even spoke harshly to his own Balali followers. Eventually, to the embarrassment of the new republic, French troops had to be called in to restore order. An uneasy peace returned, with at least 500 people under arrest. Among them: Jacques Opangault, charged with "incitement to sedition, rebellion and pillage...
...evolutionary theory is generally credited to the Abbé Georges Lemaitre, a Belgian priest. "For him," said Dr. Lovell, "and for all who associate their universe with God, the creation of the primeval atom was a divine act outside the limits of scientific knowledge and indeed of scientific investigation." Some of Lemaitre's nonreligious disciples think otherwise. Cosmographer George Gamov of the University of Colorado believes that the primeval atom was not an ultimate beginning but "merely a state of maximum contraction of a universe that had previously existed for an eternity of time." A semi-mystical attitude...