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...government say we got to creep before we walk," said a Kingston shoeshine boy, snapping his cloth. Then he looked up. "Hell, mon, we been creeping forever." Just finished celebrating its second anniversary of nationhood after 307 years of British rule, Jamaica is an impatient country, increasingly dissatisfied with merely creeping toward the accouterments of modern life that newly independent peoples feel they have coming to them. Jamaicans want TV sets, washing machines, new autos-and they want them soon...
Most Jamaicans regard farming as too servile; by the thousands they drift into the Kingston capital seeking clerk and factory jobs, but these are so scarce that an estimated 22% of Jamaica's 650,000-man work force is unemployed...
...another crew competition 3000 miles away, Eliot House's lightweights easily disposed of the London Rowing Club Saturday to win the Thames Challenge Cup at the Henley Regatta. The victory followed a cliffhanging one-third-of-a-length semifinal win over the Kingston Boat Club...
Even the White House bulged with graduating seniors. The Johnsons entertained 121 high school graduates designated as "Presidential Scholars," let them wander through the public rooms and over the lawns for nearly five hours. Lynda Bird presided over a hamburger picnic while the Kingston Trio supplied an upbeat and Lyndon and Lady Bird stretched out on the cool grass to watch...
...course, it wasn't really. And last week as her 30th radio anniversary came around, Mary Margaret, 64, was still at it. Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11 to noon, her folksy chat goes out to WGHQ listeners. It's just a local station in Kingston, N.Y., and she mostly interviews the neighbors at her book-lined "retirement" home. But Richard Rodgers journeyed up for the show a few broadcasts ago, and the sponsors, as always with Mary Margaret, are breathlessly waiting in line...