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...with urbanized Bantus now 65% literate and developing a middle class of civil servants and teachers, preferences are becoming more sophisticated. Bantus refuse to read or speak Afrikaans, react quickest to English-language advertising. British habits are widely copied: 80% of all hats sold in South Africa are bought by Bantus, who consider a hat the hallmark of English gentility, and three out of four Bantu homes prefer tea to coffee...
...million Negroes have more income ($27 billion annually) than ever-and some pragmatic beliefs about spending it. "The quickest way to a white man's conscience," goes a favorite Negro saying, "is through his pocketbook." This may hit the mark, because the most successful Negro civil rights stratagem so far has been neither sit-in nor lawsuit. Negro leaders, skirting restraint-of-trade laws, call the device "selective buying." It is really a consumer boycott, and it can be devastatingly effective...
Doug Walter, number four, won the quickest match of the day, romping over Bob Guthrie, 6-1, 6-0. Frank Ripley, who may be the best number two man in the Eastern Intercollegiate Teams League, whipped Jack Levine 6-0, 6-3, and Vic Niederhoffer defeated Tom Poor by the same score...
...however, is moved by the event to chuck the good life and become a monk. The motivation of this holy man may puzzle the reader, though it is suggested that life in a monastery is at least one way out of Pasadena-as drink is said to be the quickest way out of Philadelphia...
...wait and formally negotiate a long range agreement with Britain might have forced Kennedy and McNamara to go through the same embarrassing and time-consuming performance that they had undergone the year before. The quickest course was to confront the British government with an unchangeable situation, let Macmillan work himself into a desperate frame of mind, and then present him with Polaris missiles, a gift he accepted with practically no delay...