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...another narrative device, the blind Captain Cat (Nick Carrera) has exactly that power; Alexander Macmillan works a little simple magic with the Reverend Eli Jenkins sunrise and sunset poems; and Newell Flather as Nogood Boyo, Dai Bread, Utah Watkins, and Sinbad is consistently, wonderfully funny...
...French West Africa's leading champion of cooperation with France. Paris poured money into the Ivory Coast, and Houphouet himself, already a member of the French National Assembly, became the indispensable black man in every French Cabinet. His Marxist enemies back home pictured him as an "African Bao Dai," willing to sacrifice his people for the pleasures and prestige he enjoyed in Paris...
...Francisco's teeming Chinatown (pop. about 30,000), the man most hated last week was one Huey Bing Dai. The wrinkled man of 80 had not shown his solemn face in the streets for weeks, for thanks to his help the Justice Department had cracked one of the biggest cases of illegal immigration in its history. After a seven-month investigation federal authorities reported that Huey Bing Dai's clan had secretly and illegally moved most of the male inhabitants of an entire Chinese village to the U.S. over a period of 50-odd years. Like untold thousands...
...worked for decades in such points of entry as New York and Boston. But it flourished best in San Francisco, where noncitizens, when pressed to prove U.S. citizenship,* could insist that their birth certificates and other papers had been lost in the great earthquake of 1906. Old Huey Bing Dai, haled before federal authorities on an anonymous tip, confessed that he alone was responsible for 57 such fraudulent entries into the U.S. Along with others, he had arranged slots for more than 250 men of his clan who had lived in the Cantonese village of Sai Kay; most of them...
...flow by fining and jailing Chinese who deal directly in slot contacts, in the past year and a half have prosecuted 69. The U.S. probably will not prosecute the others, since deporting them would be impracticable. But all this did not ease the situation of old Huey Bing Dai, who gave everything away. "The whole town's mad at him," said a young Chinese-American. "He will not be happy here...