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...opened a tiny tobacco shop in Johannesburg. After World War II he borrowed enough from friends and banks to buy an unused flour mill and two cigarette-making machines. Soon he was nearly broke. Rupert staved off disaster in 1948 by persuading London's Rothman of Pall Mall to allow him to make and market its brands (Pall Mall, Consulate) in South Africa. Five years later he bought out Rothman for about $2,000,000. Since then he has ventured beyond tobacco road. He now produces some of South Africa's finest wines and brandies and has interests...
...travesty of minstrelsy was that a white man in black face could get a laugh cheap because anything black was considered funny. Ishmael Reed (The Free-Lance Pall-Bearers) is a black man in white face who doesn't miss a travesty. Anything white or even tan is ripe for his satire...
...Kaufman has his own flaw: he has made it quite clear that he does not know when to stop. All the pipes and wires in the new building lobby will be exposed and treated almost as if they were works of art. Like all whimsy, the joke can pall. "It's a little fun," says Kaufman. "It doesn't mean a damn thing-and we can always take it out. All we're trying to do is add levity to this somber city...
...fall of Quang Tri cast a pall of gloom over Saigon and Washington, and raised urgent questions about Vietnamization, the hopeful policy through which the U.S. had built up the army of South Viet Nam, at immense cost in lives and treasure, to fight the Communists on its own. Could ARVN survive, much less defeat the North Vietnamese offensive? Could President Thieu-and even the U.S. presence and influence in South Viet Nam-outlast another similar defeat...
...does enable him to speculate about the future. While discussing the growth of sports, he asks whether the pall mall race for the dollar will continue. He views sarcastically the greed of the owners and players, and wonders...