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From the moment he stepped out of his Air Malawi BAC-111 jetliner to receive a 21-gun salute and a red-carpet greeting from South Africa's State President Jim Fouche, the emotional Banda seemed delighted to be there. Hustling over to a crowd of waiting Africans, he waved his fly whisk, made from a wildebeest's tail, and shouted in Fanagalo, the language of the South African gold mines, "Kamuzu is glad to be here." Later Banda led South African officials on a tour of the mine offices where he had worked as a youth...
...fairly impressive display of her stubborn cool, Tricia decided that her wedding to Edward Finch Cox would go just as she had planned it. Attendants with white towels mopped the rain water from the gazebo just outside the Oval Office and peeled the protective plastic sheeting from the white carpet spread down the aisle between the gilt guest chairs arranged in the Rose Garden. At 4:30 p.m., after a half-hour delay, the rain stopped, and perhaps the loveliest of all the 16 weddings held at the White House began...
...character?aggressiveness, prosperity, a willingness to homogenize its traditions in search of the economic mainstream. The North Georgia mountains have steeped a third element into Georgia. Life in the beautiful rolling hills of the Appalachians resembles that in Tennessee and West Virginia. With the exception of Dalton (carpet industry) and Gainesville (chicken processing), North Georgia is economically depressed, a region of fiercely individual mountain folk given to such older crafts as quilting, whittling and moonshining...
...what'II happen? It's afternoon. The kaffir's in the living room on his hands and knees sweeping the carpet. Someone's left the television on. He looks up at the screen. He sees a chorus line of white girls with scanty costumes. What does he do? Of course, he runs upstairs and rapes the madam...
McMillan has willingly weathered the ostracism. "He'd give Job stiff competition for patience," says his secretary. With characteristic good humor, he prizes a battery-run toy school bus given him by a fellow judge and periodically zooms it around his office carpet. (The toy manufacturer provided the bus with white student passengers only.) "A judge would ordinarily like to decide cases to suit his neighbors," McMillan admits. But in this case, he could...