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...cheap South African brandy for $3 to $4 a bottle from white bootleggers who pick it up at $1.68 in the whites-only stores. The rest drink their troubles away at the illicit drinking parlors of "shebeen queens." wealthy black matrons who serve a throat-scalding, home-distilled brew made by boiling together potato peelings, berries and sometimes a dash of methylated spirits...
...anthropologist (The Hostile Sun), he has a strong sense of what it must be like to live in a primitive society, and also the dangers facing the educated African who defies both Europe and his tribal past. It is this last theme-rather than a sampling of the yeasty brew of independence-that Novelist Stacey has drawn on for this deeply felt and disturbing first novel...
High in Cairo. The Mississippi's river system is vital. It furnishes power for a huge chunk of U.S. industry. Americans use it to irrigate their farms, to brew beer in Minnesota, to draw off sewage in Ohio and Kentucky, to carry boats and barges over thousands of miles, to help light millions of homes. But the Mississippi, the Ohio and the Missouri, with all their tributaries, are also deadly: in 1952, as an outstanding flood-year example, they cost millions in property damage, along with scores of lives. Now, for the first time in the habitation of North...
Among Nairobi's Africans, who judge an alcoholic beverage not by its taste but its kick, the most popular brew for the past 13 years has been a potion known as KMQ (Kill Me Quick), a throat-burning mixture of surgical spirits and methyl alcohol. Invented by a burly Luo tribesman named Akumu Onyiego, KMQ was precisely named: less than two pints of the stuff is a lethal dose...
Benjamin Rowland, Jr. '28, professor of Fine Arts, will present a paper on "Religious Art: East and West." John O. Brew, Peabody Professor of American Archaeology and Ethnology; Krister Stendahl, John H. Morrison Professor of New Testament Studies; Wilbur K. Jordan, professor of History; and Genjun H. Sasaki, visiting Fulbright lecturer, will also attend the conference...