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...this cultural cold war are depressingly familiar: the gap between those who live in the cool stucco villas on the hillsides and those scrabbling for an existence in the tar-paper shanties in the towns; unemployment and underemployment hard by glittering affluence; the infection of black nationalism. Says Melvin Evans, the islands' black Governor: "Our people feel they are losing their home; they feel they'll soon be outnumbered by the people from the north, from the U.S." Adds Leopold E. Benjamin, his black assistant: "There's a lot of young people, especially those who have been...
Corn Hints. In the current issue, for example, Princeton Physicist Melvin Gottlieb postulates that controlled fusion, using water as a source of raw material, may solve power shortages of the future. British Freelancer Jonathan Power concludes that urban development could be disastrous in Africa, where "rural life and the land offer something better than the god of G.N.P...
Islanders have grown used to grumbling about a rise in the crime rate and the bands of youths that sometimes wander round nearby Christiansted at night. But they were stunned by what Governor Melvin Evans called "the most heinous crime I can recall." Some tourists wondered whether the real motive for the murders might have been political or racial; all the gunmen were black, apparently, and seven of the eight victims were white. But police believed that the crime was merely a particularly vicious case of armed robbery. At week's end, the police arrested...
...illustration of the style now in favor, neither the President nor his press secretary responded to Ramsey Clark's broadcast from Hanoi accusing the U.S. of bombing the dikes (see story, page 16). The counterattack was delegated to Secretary of State William Rogers and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird. "We have to watch out that the kick-'em-in-the-nuts urge doesn't become so great that we give in to it," says a White House aide known for some expert kicking in his time...
...American Trial Lawyers Association. Not long ago, Steingold was grumbling to a friend that the lack of a rating had cost him a client, since people looking for out-of-town lawyers tend to check the entries in Martindale-Hubbell. Steingold was grumbling to the right man: Melvin Belli, free-swinging crusader against every variety of tort. Belli promptly filed a class-action suit against Martindale-Hubbell on behalf of Steingold and all other non-rated lawyers (a group that includes Belli himself). His demand...