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Adjoining "white Leo" is the teeming "native town," known to the Negroes as Le Beige. Without its 350,000 Africans, Leopoldville would crumble in the tropical sun. Each morning, thousands of Negroes bicycle into downtown Leo to work in the shipyards and offices. Evenings, they stream homeward to the jumble of shacks, tenements, modern homes and tastefully built hospitals that make up "black Leo." In the darkness, millions of candles glow under the mango trees where Negro market women do a roaring trade in bread, beer and dried fish, green-and-brown-striped caterpillars (a delicacy when fried in deep...
...them under the front seat of Smith's Buick, with wires hidden under the floor mat but not attached to the ignition, so there was no danger. Two nights later, while Smith was in his club, Wolf connected the wires on the Buick parked outside. Soon afterward, Smith, homeward-bound, turned...
...columns slowly started up again. The throng swelled to an estimated 35,000, as bystanders and homeward-bound workers joined the parade. In the forbidden Plaza de Mayo, the marchers halted before the buff-colored cathedral and waved their white handkerchiefs. The sea of white signified not surrender, but support and defiance-support for the church, defiance for President Juan Perón, who last October began waging an off-and-on war of harassment against the church (TIME, April 4 et ante...
...were to conclude that the islands are essential to the defense of Formosa and the Pescadores, then they might be defended. Chiang was bitterly disappointed and did not bother to see Dulles to the door when the luncheon was over. That evening Dulles took off through the same mist, homeward-bound, to make his report to the President and by TV to the nation...
...great road that stretched from Rome to Brindisi on Italy's southern coast. Laid out in 312 B.C. and already famed in Caesar's day, the Via Appia became known, in the centuries that followed, as the Queen of Roads. Many a victorious Roman legion marched homeward in triumph along its stone paving and over its skillfully engineered bridges. Wealthy Romans built their most sumptuous villas and tombs along its right of way. Along the same road the Apostle Paul trudged to his martyrdom...