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...Then elections will be called for April 1954. ¶ At the same time, a Vice President, to replace Hortensio Quijano (who died more than a year ago), will be elected. Likely candidates: Foreign Minister Jernóimo Remorino, Minister of Labor and Welfare Alejandro Giavarini, Minister of Technical Affairs Raūl Mende...
Robert L. Politzer, coordinator of language instruction in the Department of Romance Languages, objected to the time requirement. "A person with two or more years of language in high school can satisfy the requirement by taking French Ra, a half course reviewing elementary French, and Ca, the first half of intermediate French," Politzer said. "But a person with less than two years in high school must take Cb, the second half of intermediate French, too. I would favor a uniform requirement based on proficiency...
...streets, in the narrow alleys, he could purchase-with "no sweat"-scarce Army supplies, like light bulbs and radio batteries. There were piles of leather jackets from U.S. mail-order houses, gleaming rows of cheap watches smuggled in from Japan, gay shelves of Japanese cosmetics, even stacks of C-ra-tion cans. "You want buy, sah-jint? Numbah...
After some elder has hidden the effigy, village women and children brandishing sticks and kitchen knives search the villages, crying, "Qui bo' li?" (where is he hiding?). Then entire populations, including stiff-jointed ancients and bare-bottomed small fry, join in the Ra Ra processions that snake out into the countryside, laughing and joking and singing creole chants to the accompaniment of throbbing tambours and booming vaccines (huge bamboo pipes that give off hollow, resonant notes when blown). Waving clubs, machetes and old colonial swords, they thrash through the ravines and cane-brakes, and if by chance they first...
This year the rumor went around that the authorities and more sophisticated islanders were embarrassed by the primitive revelry of the Ra Ra bands, and would attempt to ban them from the capital. But in Port-au-Prince, police said they had no orders to stop the merry processions, and even priests admitted that they saw no harm in the Judas hunt. "We take a neutral view, neither encouraging nor discouraging it," explained one. "It is part of the people's need for release...