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...Belgians call it, has tripled its population in the past six years. Its 20,000 whites live apart in a suburb that seems far too big for them. There are broad, empty boulevards and a scattering of modern skyscrapers, but the buildings seem isolated amid the mango palms and yellow-flowered cassia trees where the red-tailed parrots roost. Many streets are unpaved and unlighted; in heavy rain they turn to quagmires. Leo's whites are mostly officials or highly trained business executives-managers, engineers, sales agents. They are a hardworking, hard-drinking crew, and they have plenty...
...best line of all falls to Pirate No. 2 .(Lloyd Berrell), a Spaniard who twirls his gleaming black mustachios and promises Pirate No. 1: "I weel peel you like a mango...
Salesman Rantz soon owns everything, but finds himself utterly alone. Even Kula, the native girl who had fallen into his arms like a ripe mango, walks out on him. By now, Rantz finds that he has outsmarted himself. In his loneliness he rediscovers that over-Donne island truth: no man is an Hand, intire of itselfe. In his new humility he goes to the other side, finds that the powerless, possessionless exiles are living life as it was before the fall. Everything belongs to everybody; greed, hate and fear are gone with the trade winds, and love is as free...
...home), they must dance well, and "cultivate at least five of the following tastes : comics, spaceship adventure books, U.S. jazz, iced soft drinks, the movies, the radio, sports, chewing gum or hot-rods." Most notably, they must know the vocabulary. Samples: "phantasmagoric," "atomic" or "pyramidal" (for great), "pineapple" and "mango" (for a kiss), "curse of the green turkey buzzard" and "horror, horror, three times horror!" (as all-purpose exclamations of surprise or distaste...
...equatorial South, on the left bank of the White Nile, the King of the Shilluks sat under a mango tree, wearing a white sash and stroking his tufted beard. His Majesty's illiterate subjects kissed his black feet and asked: "For whom shall we vote?" The King said: "Ask the white...