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...constitute a warning to other states that oppression of minorities cannot go unpunished." This argument has had considerable effect on the four African heads of state who now recognize Biafra. "You cannot kill thousands of people and keep killing more in the name of unity," says Tanzania's Julius Nyerere. "There is no unity between the dead and those who killed them...
When he beat Ben Hogan to win his first U.S. Open championship in 1952, Julius Boros was described by a sportswriter as a man who "played with a cool nonchalance, chomping blades of grass, making shots with a cigarette dangling from his lips." In 1963, when he won the Open for the second time by beating Arnold Palmer in a playoff, he was said to be "placid and pleasant." Last week Boros was still cool, nonchalant, placid and pleasant-and still winning. This time, the prize was his third major title, the Professional Golfers Association championship. Boros still chomped...
...rather stay home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., and fish for snook than play golf. At the very least, he says, "I get just as excited when I fish as I do when I'm playing golf." And how excited is that? Well, after he won the 1963 Open, Julius reportedly opened a beer, lit up a cigarette, and fell sound asleep while he was being interviewed by a nationally syndicated columnist. Oh no, insists Boros: he was only resting his eyes...
LOOK OUT, WHITEY! BLACK POWER'S GON' GET YOUR MAMA by Julius Lester. 152 pages. Dial...
Mean Mischief These new books offer some value as footnotes to the argument. Julius Lester is a former field secretary of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. His Look Out, Whitey! is a long harangue that reproduces accurately the black tone of voice at its angriest. It is street-corner oratory aimed at blacks but spoken, as the mean mischief of the title suggests, with sly awareness of the whites standing at the edge of the crowd...