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...hurt McGill badly in the eyes of many other faculty members, who were convinced the university had sold its soul to buy a basketball star. The faculty remained hostile even after McGill was refused a scholarship and had to sell his secondhand car to help pay his way to Utah. Says one Utah professor: "I know for a fact that in the English department every paper McGill wrote was passed around for inspection to as many as seven different instructors." The uproar grew so loud that the university finally raised its admissions standards for out-of-state students to help...
...door supposedly has disappeared in Russia. But who can be sure? Hearing the knocks, householders admitted grim-faced men flashing badges and search warrants. In Moscow the family of one Nina Ivanovna was brusquely told that Nina had been arrested at her job as manager of a state-owned secondhand store. The callers demanded all of Nina's valuables, and her terrified mother handed over a bag containing some 250,000 rubles in cash and government bonds. Fur-Cutter Aleksei Aleksandrov caved in at the sight of the dreaded secret police and surrendered 300,000 rubles in money...
...hawkers' tinkling bells, Ghanaian dandies eagerly sifted stacks of multicolored "Yankee shirts" selling for 28?, judiciously fingered other broni waawu-which literally means the "white man has died." The expression was coined after World War II for used clothes, then chiefly Army surplus, when the natives assumed secondhand garments had belonged to dead soldiers. It has even wider applications today...
From the well-dressed U.S., the world's biggest exporter of secondhand clothing, broni waawu is covering the underdeveloped nations of the world. The raw material for the estimated $30 million annual business often results from a closetcleaning housewife's call to a ragman or the Salvation Army. The castoffs may end in a Baghdad bazaar or a peddler's Land Rover making bush-to-bush sales in Tanganyika-with a Brooks Brothers suit for sale at $5, Arrow shirts at 50?, a Saks dress at 30?. Last year U.S. exporters shipped over 200 million...
...Ghana last year doubled its purchase of used clothes, spent some $1,680,000 on broni waawu, mostly from the U.S., and the All-Africa Women's League, the most militant no-nakedness national organization, distributed several thousand garments free. Morocco last year imported $1,000,000 in secondhand garments. In East Africa, the political and missionary propaganda on the importance of wearing clothes has succeeded so well that any native wearing only a loincloth is now derided as mtu hivi hivi -a wild man. The men like dark jackets, preferably dinner jackets, and the bigger the satin lapels...