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...biggest postwar achievement has been to open vast new areas of the world to the 20th century. Since 1945, Air France has laid out a network of 111 stops in West Africa, Equatorial Africa and Madagascar. Long-isolated areas such as Mauritania (pop. 793 whites, 545,000 natives), Lake Chad, the Cameroons, are now within 18 hours of Paris and do a fast-growing business in pineapples, cotton and beef, all flown out by Air France...
THESE LOVERS FLED AWAY, by Howard Spring (483 pp.; Harper; $4.50), starts at the turn of the century with a handful of corny characters in a Cornish setting, then marches through all the pomp, circumstance, sweat and tears of three generations of 20th century Britain. Playwright Chad Boothroyd, the hero, loves Rose Garland. Rose, a rather dreary dreg of tea, is invariably presented to the reader in a gown of crimson silk, which invariably seems to have a fetish effect upon Chad. Ultimately, Chad gets Rose, but only after she 1) lives with Eustace Hawke, a sensational poet with more...
...situations cliché, and the novel's real worth lies in the embroidery with which Author Spring (My Son, My Son) surrounds that crimson gown. The rich and reverent descriptions of the English scene are worth the price of admission, as are some of the characters-especially Chad's Dickensian Uncle Arthur, a glutton who grows auriculae and dotes on a skinny whippet...
...there are certain domestic jobs he doesn't like to do. If he can afford it, he wants slaves to do them." With their new, oil-born wealth, the minister went on, many Arabs can now afford this luxury, and many procurers in the French Sudan, Ubangi-shari. Chad, the Cameroons and some British territories are ready and willing to satisfy their needs on "the ebony market" at prices ranging from $1,150 to a paltry $570 per slave (women usually sell for slightly more than men). La Graviére's charges and the evidence which supported...
Center forward Chad Tubman has provided the scoring punch, getting seven goals or half the team's total. The Governor Dummer graduate (whose 21 goals set a new school record last year) is fast and has good control...