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...novel of racial misalliance is often given to such trait slinging, and The Lonely Conqueror is no exception. The hero, Sergeant John Baako, U.S. Army, has colored skin, but beneath it lies a colorless stereotype. As Baako and his German sweetheart careen from the valley of the Rhine to the hinterlands of the Zambezi, the common indignities, predictably enough, cluster upon them like cattle flies. But when she says, "I know a lot of men who aren't half the man you are, even though their skin is the same color as mine"; and when he feels "inferior...
...revolution, many moderate Cubans who supported Castro from the start are losing faith. "It's a swindle," said a prosperous Havana professional man. These former Castro supporters deplore his confiscating land decrees, the conduct of some of his men and the course of his government. Castro soldiers careen about the city in Jeeps with guns in their belts and girls at their sides. Armed Forces Chief Raul Castro is living in a $220,000 mansion confiscated from a crony of Batista...
Time to Retire. In Bingham, Utah, workers were threatened with "some disciplinary action" after they lost control of a 1,800-lb. road-grader tire they were rolling to amuse themselves during lunch hour, saw it careen down a mile-deep copper mine and vanish into a roadway, where it rolled to a town three-quarters of a mile away, bounced 30 ft. in the air, ripped open the second floor of a house...
...four University students are among 47 Americans and Canadians who have received the fellowships for the 1955-56 academic year. The awards are designed to stimulate interest in the ministry among college graduates in doubt as to their choice of a careen. The award winners represent 15 denominations and will study at 18 member schools of the American Association of Theological Schools...
Undaunted, Bouvard and Pécuchet go on to more ambitious studies-chemistry, physiology, geology, archeology, history, politics, literature, esthetics, philosophy, religion. The cultural scenery of the times flashes by as they careen along the road to knowledge. They are a little ashamed on discovering that "their own organism contained phosphorous like matches, albumen like the whites of eggs, hydrogen like gas lamps," but delighted to learn that "the tongue is the seat of taste, and the feeling of hunger resides in the stomach." Not complete imbeciles, they become suspicious of historians on reading that the Loire during the French...