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...still conjures up a vision of Stewart Granger beating bravely through the bush, trailed by the wealthy, red-faced "Bwana Mkubwa" (Big Boss), his bored, flirtatious wife and a long line of naked natives with rifles, cook pots and bathtubs balanced on their heads. A more accurate vision is apt to be somewhat less theatrical. Outside Nairobi's new circular Hilton Hotel (the "Tiltin' Hilton"), a gaggle of middleaged, middle-class Americans clamber into a zebra-striped minibus. Whisked off to a government-operated park, they spend the day shooting everything that moves-with cameras...
...Bunting, whose first priority is the merger, said. "The ratio is apt to change somewhat. I don't think it's apt to be 50-50." She cited a 60 men to 40 women ratio-which many other coed schools have-as a possible future ratio here...
...Indians who move off the land and into big cities are indeed apt to become losers. More than 200,000 Indians have done so. They do not congregate as closely as blacks, partly because they meet less resistance in moving into low-income white neighborhoods. There are nearly 60,000 in Los Angeles, perhaps 20,000 in the San Francisco Bay area, about 12,000 in Phoenix, 15,000 on Chicago's North Side. Some 12,000 inhabit the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, almost half in shabby apartment houses and creaky Victorian houses near Minneapolis' Franklin Avenue, which cops...
...problem-raiser, The Master Game is provocative and imaginative material. Its merciless assault on the ego is painfully apt for those of us who get caught up in the intellectual one-upmanship of Harvard. Tagged from grade school as "gifted children," herded together during Orientation Week for pronouncements on how "special" we are glad-handed by proud relatives and deified by guidance counselors. we can use as many reminders of our biological spiritual identity as we can get. If we remember that DeRopp, like the rest of us, has a firmer grasp of the questions than of the answers, reading...
...proliferation of drugs seems to the Middle American an apt metaphor for his sense that American life has grown contaminated. The spectacle of Woodstock?quite apart from the nudity and the mess?was offensive to Middle America because it seemed that everyone was dropping something or smoking something and the police stood by and watched. At the same time, the widespread use of marijuana, sometimes by their own children, is leading many Middle Americans toward a bit more sophistication, an ability to distinguish between the use of pot and harder drugs. For some months of his presidency, the distinction seemed...