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...purist and patriot, Linguist Etiemble has declared war against Franglais, the pidgin French-English that has flooded la belle langue with U.S. neologisms. French newspapers speak of call-girls, cliff-dwellers, containment, fairways, missile-gaps, uppercuts. French sociologists analyze le melting-pot, out-groups, ego-involvement. French business roils with words like boom, le boss, fifty-fifty, soft-approach and supermarket...
...aimed to entice Angola's black masses into new government villages offering schools, churches, and medical facilities previously unavailable to them. Though the program is showing results, it involves a slow, laborious and wary process. Usually the maneuver begins with a Portuguese army patrol finding a message in pidgin Portuguese tacked to a tree by some natives asking food or a bag of salt. The provisions are left as requested, plus a note offering safe-conduct to a resettlement village. In this way, some 250,000 Africans have so far been moved into such centers...
...During his 37-year rise from traveling geologist for Aluminum Co. of America, scholarly Lawrence Litchfield Jr., 61, learned to eat monkey meat and acquired a command of the Dutch Guiana pidgin known as Takki-Takki. But since he was named Alcoa's president two years ago, Litchfield's studies have been less exotic: under the tutelage of Chairman Frank Magee, 66, he has been mastering the art of managing a major corporation under tough competitive pressure. Last week, Magee turned over to Annapolis Graduate Litchfield ('20) the duties of chief executive of the world...
...Viet Nam, freedom for all political parties, release of all political prisoners, promotion of "free enterprise," and creation of a neutral Southeast Asian bloc that would accept aid from all nations, including the U.S. By no means do all the peasants fall for the Red promises. Says one in pidgin French: "Moi pas vu, moi pas croire" (Me no see, me no believe). But a great many others are convinced by the Reds, partly because, as one villager says, "The Viet Cong come into the fields and work with you. If there's no work to be done, they...
...tumblers of Scotch, gin and mimbo, the native palm potion. More than 6 ft. tall and past 80 in age, the gorgeously robed Fon moves through Author Durrell's pages like the mythic club member of some eternally tipsy Olympus. The Fon also regaled Durrell with a pidgin-English account of Queen Elizabeth's tour of the neighboring realm. "Dis Queen woman she get plenty power. She walker walker she never shweat. Na foine woman...