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...Loeb Drama Center, Nadine Gordimer claimed that "South Africa lacks the culture from which literature draws its real substance." She quoted Reinhold Niebuhr's criteria for a national super-entity, noting that her country has no common language, philosophy, or historical experience, no ethnic kinship, and common foe...
...intractability of the Russians and renouncing the hope that tomorrow Communists will suddenly become "nice guys". But it also faces a task in turning an equally permanent force, the new nations, to some course acceptable in liberal terms. If no criteria exist to distinguish revolutionary friend from revolutionary foe, we have exchanged the inability to recognize our enemies for the inability to recognize our comrades...
...Lumumba really escaped? Or was it all a careful plan by Tshombe's men to conceal a political assassination? Tshombe is Lumumba's deadly enemy, and some of Tshombe's Belgian backers might be anxious to eliminate a foe who was getting greater and greater backing for a comeback among the U.N.'s members. For days, Elisabethville's gossip mills had buzzed with rumors that Lumumba had been shot in jail. According to one story, the famous prisoner had died from a bullet on the morning of Jan. 18, a day after he was shipped...
...gets upset when he catches an accidental elbow in a scramble for a loose ball. Detroit's Walt Dukes (7 ft., 220 lbs.) has the sharpest elbows in the league, beats a painful tattoo on the heads of friend and foe alike. Used intentionally, however, the elbow can be a far more effective weapon than a punch. Says one coach on the ethics of elbowing: "It's perfectly all right for me to belt someone if he flagrantly holds me repeatedly when we're not fighting over the ball...
...would like people to think he has-Fidel Castro turned his guns from the sea and ended the mythical "Yankee invasion" scare. Calling for "a quest of peace" with the new Kennedy Administration, he turned his attention inland last week, and for good reason. There is a very real foe to fight at home. It is the underground rebellion, operating in Cuba's hills and cities, infiltrating the army and government agencies, doing more damage to the new dictatorship in six months than Castro had managed against the old in a year...