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...famous Ruhr industrial baron who died in 1924, leaving his empire to be run by his wife and two sons. Hugo worked with his mother and brother Otto to rebuild the Stinnes holdings after World War II, but did not get along with his kinfolk. He set out to build an industrial complex of his own, calling one of his two holding firms "Hugo Stinnes Personally Inc." to show his independence to the world. But Hugo depended too much on the memory of his father, and drove himself relentlessly to match old Hugo's accomplishment. Like Borgward and Schlieker...
Family Day in South Africa is an expanded version of Mother's or Father's Day-a time for all kinfolk to get together. South Africa's whites and blacks last week celebrated the holiday in ironically contrasting ways. While whites picnicked or frolicked on beaches, thousands of blacks mourned the absence of relatives-who were either banished or behind bars...
Last week, as they marked their country's 1,000th anniversary, the solid, easygoing Luxembourgeois looked forward to a long summer of low-key celebration, including a dog show, endless wine festivals, an international stamp exposition, and a visit by two planeloads of kinfolk from Chicago, which is said to boast more Luxembourgeois than Luxembourg (pop. 320,000).* The mystery is why they ever left in the first place...
...spent the day in Miami's Dinner Key Auditorium, about 30 miles from Homestead. They gathered, about 10,000 of them, in a joyous mood. They waited and waited. Almost twelve hours passed while Castro stalled. Even after landing at Homestead, the ex-prisoners were kept from their kinfolk while being fitted for fresh khakis and given a roast beef dinner...
...produced . . . The Negro's past, of rope, fire, torture, castration, infanticide, rape; death and humiliation; fear by day and night, fear as deep as the marrow of the bone; doubt that he was worthy of life, since everyone around him denied it; sorrow for his women, for his kinfolk, for his children, who needed his protection, and whom he could not protect; rage, hatred, and murder, hatred for white men so deep that it often turned against him and his own, and made all love, all trust, all joy impossible-this past, this endless struggle to achieve and reveal...