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ALTHOUGH the International trading of Angolans had ended, the Portugese continued to run their colony on the principle of enforced slave labor. The new trade in Ivory, rubber and minerals was built on the backs of the Angolese who had remained in their homeland. Needed agricultural goods were produced on slave plantations for the home market. Although Portugal's empire was tawdry by comparison with those of mightier European nations, the Portugese could not bear to give it up. As one trader-colonist wrote in 1882, "In the land of the blind, the one-eyed are king. As poor...
...Terry (Brennan) was surprisingly fast...he kept ducking under my jab and coming in. He likes to bull you on the ropes, work on the body. But he got me mostly with hooks, hooks don't hurt that much, they mostly get you on that rubber head thing you wear...
...high statue of Chairman Mao dominates the entrance to the base where we are waved in by a P.L. A. traffic policeman snapping green and red flags in his hands. Near by the troops line up; they practice firing their AK-47 automatic rifles and butt each other with rubber-tipped bayonets shouting "Heighten vigilance to our motherland...
Israel ignores her poor. Jewish women are robots. Reform Jews are rubber-stamp leftists. Synagogues are sterile shells. These outspoken, sometimes outrageous statements are not the howls of angry Gentiles or even anti-Semitic Jews. They are the assertions of new voices in a combative array of Jewish magazines and newspapers that are blooming across the U.S. like kibbutzim in the desert. Some 50 publications with a combined press run of 400,000 now heckle Establishment Judaism from California to New York, even in such unlikely places as Norman, Okla., and Albuquerque...
Student Ascher, meanwhile, seems to be solidifying his position as the nation's No. 1 phoney tunesmith; he is currently working on a pushbutton adaptation of Rubber Duckie. Phone musicians have learned not to begin pushing out a tune as soon as they lift the receiver. If the first number they punch is 0, for example, they will automatically get the operator. Even worse, the tune they select might well complete an expensive call to London or Paris. Experienced players usually place a local call to a friend and tap out new melodies to him only after the connection...