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...have been wedded in a marriage symbolically consummated with the penetration of colonial territory by the corporate derrick. Farber specifies that "in the re-negotiation of the concession agreement in 1969 (when the drilling investment was beginning to pay off) the government was prepared to defer the deadline for partial relinquishment of the Gulf concession area, as the company had hoped, in return for advance payment of royalties that would help ease a tight budget situation in Angola." The budget was tight because so much of it was going to fight the guerrillas...
...qualified as Julian Bond to accomplish both ends of this task. Soon after the Ohio primary, Bond met with McGovern and McGovern's minority coordinator. Yancey Martin, and an agreement was reached. In return for preachin and healin for McGovern. Bond was to get "the three things I wanted: partial control of campaigning in my area, the hon's share of the voter registration money for my area, and, after the election, patronage...
...Sanford Bates, 88, reform-minded penologist who presided over the massive expansion of the federal prison system during the Hoover and Roosevelt administrations; in Trenton, N.J. A lawyer, Bates was named head of Massachusetts' correctional institutions in 1919, and introduced such innovations as a merit pay system and partial self-government for inmates. When Congress set up the U.S. Bureau of Prisons in 1930, Bates was appointed its first director. He later created model, much-imitated parole systems for New York and New Jersey...
...enduring element of American genius is the ability to turn almost any activity into a thriving multimillion-dollar business. Political conventions, however, are a partial exception. They have indeed become a growth industry, but no one seems to be getting rich off them...
...cold-shower-and-vigorous-exercise defense against temptation. Or the masturbation-won't-harm -you -but-it-causes-worry gambit. The eighth edition merely suggests that sex questions be asked of qualified adults. That is probably the wisest course. It represents a break with the tradition of partial enlightenment or downright misinformation, going back to the 1911 first edition, with its terrifying and confused theory of conserving vital fluids...