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...prize personalities discovered by Durham and Jones is Nat Love, an ebullient egotist who claimed to have been the original and genuine Deadwood Dick. Whether or not he was an authentic folk hero, Love's biography typifies in many ways the story of all Negro cowboys who faded out of history into oblivion and stereotype. After a gaudily romantic career of herding cattle, rounding up mustangs, and getting drunk, Nat Love surrendered to the modern world when the railroads finally mechanized the cattle business around 1890. In that year, acting with grotesque symbolism, Love "traded his cowpony for an iron...
Meanwhile, other TIME reporters were at work on other aspects of the story. Latin American Specialist Jerry Hannifin, one of several reporters assigned to the story in the Washington bureau, covered the series of emergency sessions of the Organization of American States. San Juan Stringer Nat Carnes talked at length with deposed President Juan Bosch, a leading figure in the drama, and bureaus and stringers throughout Latin America reported on reaction...
...push to the point of losing the wonderful velvet on your voice.'" This "velvet," which is readily apparent in the restrained opening of "Feeling Good" in Roar of the Greasepaint, should not be confused with the quite different, if attractive, breathy tone characteristic of Belafonte or the late Nat King Cole...
...might expect Nat Nakasa to be bitter about South Africa. As an African, he has experienced a lifetime of restrictions under a system that discriminates between the races so strictly that Africans are not allowed to touch or handle the South African flag. "However distinguished an African may become," says Nakasa, "there is no hope of escaping his black skin. In fact, outstanding success in business or education often brings increased frustration...
Only one essential question concerning requirements remains. Should a student be permitted to substitute, at a 1.5:1 or 2:1 ratio, departmental for Gen Ed courses? Supporters of the Constable proposal wish to extend the ratio system, which now applies only to Nat Sci, to all three areas. Several other Faculty members would restrict the system to areas outside a student's concentration. "Traditionalists" oppose the system across the board...