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MIAMI, that lotus land of sun, sand, surf and swimming pools, is also a city of golf and mah-jongg, of Shecky Greene and Liza Minnelli-a high-rolling town where lacquered young ladies comb the bars along Collins Avenue through the long, hot winter, trading favors for bread. It is an unlikely kind of football town. Who thinks of apple-cheeked American youth playing a fast game of touch on Jackie Gleason Drive or Arthur Godfrey Road? Who would expect hoarse cries of "Dee-fense! Dee-fense!" from a bathing-suit salesman dressed in a robin...
...Marsha Miles, a black sophomore at Yale, remembers what it was like to have a white roommate as a freshman: "I was a curiosity to her. She used to come into the bathroom to watch me comb my hair." After a year of that, Marsha decided to live with five other black women-and no whites. "It's no fun being a living experiment for somebody," she explains...
Dillard explains that Black English first began to take form during the period immediately before the Atlantic slave trade. As Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch and English traders began to comb the coasts of Africa looking for chattel, a number of Africans began to incorporate European words into their vocabulary. When the great slave trade began, blacks from many different language groups were thrown together in ships and packed off to the New World. Communication between people who spoke diverse African languages was impossible until the growth of a common language based on the one language to which all the slaves that...
...have a few things that are mine?the comb, the rabbit's tail my daddy gave me before he died . . . I had a luck bracelet, but I left it some place...
Corporations are under less pressure to comb campuses this year. Thousands of unemployed, older college-trained workers are still in the job market. Viet Nam era veterans are also in abundance; their unemployment rate is 8.2%, as opposed to 6.1% for the work force as a whole (up slightly from November). Employees who might have changed jobs in better times are hanging on to them now, creating fewer openings for new graduates. Litton Industries, for example, has cut its intake of graduates to half of 1968's level. "Getting the best people is easier for us now," says...