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...Port Gentil, Gabon--The flags were out in Port Gentil, too. The President of Gabon, Albert Bongo, and the President of neighboring Cameroun, el-Amidji, were in town to demonstrate Central African unity and boost their egos. It turned out later that the welcome signs--"Vive la cooperacion Africaine"--and the clean streets weren't enough. The presidents were pissed because the clapping hadn't been enthusiastic enough, and Bongo made vague threats about funds to the local authorities...
...Gabonese who changed my money at the bank (Union Monetaire du Afrique Centrale--a relic of the French colonial administration) laughed as told me the story. It seems that nobody in Port Gentil really cares about the central government of Gabon: Port Gentil is in effect an island at the mouth of southern Gabon's largest river. No highway or railroad connects it with the rest of Gabon and it's pretty much self-sufficient. Logs comes down the river to Port Gentil's sawmills, oil is beginning to be pumped from under Port Gentil, and ships come to take...
...competition Dutton defeated Harvard's number two player, John Ingard, 6-1, 6-3, and John Hayes overpowered Chip Baird, 6-3, 6-2, in the fourth singles match. Freshman John Horn, who won most of his fifth singles contests in straight sets during the year, lost to Eduardo Gentil...
Ingard and Horn, teaming at second doubles, crushed Colson and Hayes, 6-2, 6-4, while Reiner and Baird pulled out a 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 win over Gentil and Sandy McLanahan...
...extraordinary number of people who had known or met him. Sir Roger Casement seemed the Edwardian era's parfit gentil knight. Handsome, beguiling, dedicated and quixotic, he spent his life, fragile health and meager income tilting not against windmills but against millstones: the brutal burdens loaded on colonialized peoples by their self-styled civilizers, not least upon his beloved Ireland. As far as his abilities were concerned, Casement was the kind of man who in other times and circumstances might have been an explorer, poet, or U.N. Secretary-General. As it turned out, this proud and eventually demented Irish...