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...loudest." Five was Cassius' magic number, the round in which he promised to demolish Henry Cooper, 29, a onetime house plasterer who claims the British and Empire Heavyweight championships. But that was two weeks off. In the meantime, there were 55,000 tickets to be sold, and Cor, luv, wot larks...
...translated into English in 1946, dealt with the Portuguese colonization and the establishment of Negro slavery on the coffee and sugar plantations. Freyre's second volume, written in 1936, has now been translated by Harriet de Onis, mother of the New York Times's Brazil cor respondent. Titled The Mansions and the Shanties (Knopf; $10), the book traces the growth of the cities in the 19th century and the breakdown of slavery (formally abolished in 1888), and cheerfully argues that a major reason for Brazil's immense vitality is miscegenation. "Perhaps in no other country," writes Freyre...
...taste. During nearly 17 months in the White House, she has gone far toward recreating and refurbishing the serene, classically elegant residence that Jefferson intended it to be. She has helped, too, to awaken the sometimes dormant American respect for excellence, be it in food or poetry, décor or dance...
...Reaction Sir: We students at Bayside High School have a lesson in chemistry for those at the Uni versity of Arizona [March 30!. The cor rect formula for conservatism should read: Au + EhO- >No Reaction...
...countries to find merchandise and to place orders. When shipments arrive, some stores slip a few new items on the counters to see how they sell; if customers pick them up, the items are reordered in quantity; decorators get to work designing store-window displays and interior dècor, order mechanized window spectacles that cost as much as $80,000. Christmas-card makers send instructions to their artists. The word this year: go easy on the kooky wisecracks and stick to religious sentiments with "direct clean statements...