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...source. From predawn, when a rooster, the only unmusical creature he heard on the island, awoke him, he roamed the carnival-crowded streets of Port-of-Spain to hear such exotic instruments as steel drums, bongos and bamboo tamboo. In a hidden grove of palms, he even heard a bootleg concert of the long-banned jungle drums. One night at Port-of-Spain's Little Carib Theater the island's wild and inexorable rhythms got to Harman. Like everybody else, he began to do the jump-up. "Trinidad's music," he says, "is extraverted stuff that knocks...
Same-Day Service. Mrs. Jones eventually got well-fitted dentures at one of Chicago's three dental-school clinics, where the going rate is $30 to $75. And from her bitter experience the Chicago Dental Society got evidence that helped to put a score of bootleg dental-lab operators out of business and threatens nine conniving dentists with loss of their licenses...
...outcome of the Chicago cases was of national concern. Not only has the city more than its share of bootleg dental dealers in local trade; it is also home to virtually all the mail-order business. This undertakes to supply false teeth by copying old dentures mailed in, or-stranger still-by using impressions made by the victim at home with a do-it-yourself...
...teachers who are risking their freedom for the cause know full well that Minister Verwoerd will never rest until every bootleg school, every club and every knowledge crook is put out of business. After all, Minister Verwoerd has a cause of his own. "Natives," he once declared, "must be taught from childhood to realize that equality with the European is not for them...
...charge of price cutting. The committee, a private court staffed with lawyers paid by the association, weighed Mendelsohn's case carefully, penalized him by putting his shop on the "Stop List." Thenceforth, no wholesalers who belonged to the Association could sell to Mendelsohn. Unless he could find a bootleg supplier, he would have to shutter his shop...