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...those who take exception to the restaurants named Sambo's [Aug. 17] because of the similarity to "Little Black Sambo"; that tale takes place in India. Africa has no tigers, and black was used by the British to refer to the Indians. Besides, what's so insulting about a boy who uses his wits and wins over four tigers? Sambo was one sharp...
...countrymen refer to him, both admiringly and pejoratively, as "the Bulldozer." He walks like a man about to topple forward under his weight (235 lbs.), each large step shaking the floor as he advances. Both the sobriquet and the gait are appropriate, for Israel's new Defense Minister, Ariel ("Arik") Sharon, 53, whose responsibilities include administration of the Arab territories occupied since 1967, is already exerting more political weight than all his colleagues combined in Prime Minister Menachem Begin's four-week-old Cabinet...
...Paul II in Rome as a fulfillment of Nostradamus' prophecy that a Pontiff would be assassinated ("Roman Pope do not approach the city which two rivers bathe/ Your blood and that of your followers will flow near this place when the rose will flower"). A rose? That had to refer to Mitterrand's election; after all, the flower is the symbol of the French Socialist Party. Within three months, Nostradamus had sold 232,000 copies...
...Westerner has come to England to explore the roots his forebears pulled up in 1642. He settles in as squire of the ancestral village, Castle Lancing, is accepted at the local pub, marries into the aristocracy, and even becomes a passing pal of the rotund monarch his intimates refer to as "Kingie." Mr. Franklin, as the author calls him, ostensibly dug his huge fortune from a silver mine at Tonopah, Nev. Gradually, though, it emerges that this sober, self-educated man had earlier been a desperado, a gunman allied with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Inexorably, his scapegrace past...
There were only 13 tepid smatterings of applause during the 28-minute speech. Clearly, the N.A.A.C.P. delegates were less impressed by what he said than by what he failed to say. He did not refer to the specific Administration policies that blacks fear most. These include cutbacks in funds for food stamps, Aid to Families with Dependent Children, school lunches, Medicaid, subsidized housing, job training, small-business loans and general aid to education. He did not mention his plans to funnel federal help through block grants to states, which many blacks consider a retreat to the days when dominant white...