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While it is true that one cannot fully appreciate the rationale behind apartheid and its seeming abuses without actually living in South Africa, political common sense leads one to suspect that tolerance before a moderate such as Luthuli would contribute more to the longrun stability of Africa than suppression and a subsequent build-up of resentment and latent violence. Apartheid relies on an almost feudal concept of society, of lords and meek, obedient serfs (Africans of all ages are referred to as "boys," according to the New York Times) which would seem untenable, given the fact of industrialization, no matter...
...powdered his behind...
...shock waves, he argued, are different. They are caused by solar magnetic fields expanding suddenly into space and pushing ionized gas ahead of them. "It is a bit like a weather front," he explains. "Before, you are living in a very quiet zone. Suddenly a front sweeps over, and behind this front is a region of great disturbance and turbulence...
...Behind the comedy lay disasters. A man who befriended Aimee killed himself; one of her lawyers died when his car turned over in a water-filled ditch; a state Superior Court judge who backed Aimee was impeached (but acquitted). Mused Ma Kennedy: "It seems that nearly everyone who has been trying to help us has something happen to them." Perjurers, crackpots and self-seekers erupted from the woodwork; religious animosities blossomed. Through it all, Aimee followed her code: "I only remember the hours when the sun shines, sister!" She got surprising backing from Baltimore's vitriolic H. L. Mencken...
Piatigorsky, despite his three losses as number one on the unbeaten freshman team, "has the strokes," according to freshman coach Corey Wynn, to become a major collegiate star, and Woodbury is not far behind him. Schwartzman, ranked seventh on the pre-season ladder, was burdened with laboratory commitments and could only play doubles in a few matches this year; if he has more time next spring, he could help a lot, while Smith, improving steadily, was playing at number eight by the end of the year...