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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bubble of another sort burst for Correspondent Patricia Delaney when she revisited her former Beverly Hills condominium. Delaney was still riding high over the $10,000 profit she had made 18 months earlier, when she sold the condominium after being reassigned to Chicago. But, says Delaney, "my joy turned to dismay after seeing my old neighborhood. My condominium was for sale again-at $55,000 more than my 1976 selling price...
...Smith's ruling Rhodesian Front Party won all 50 parliamentary seats reserved for the country's 268,000 whites (the 6.4 million blacks have 16) and 86% of the popular vote. The right-wing Rhodesian Action Party, which had accused Smith of preparing a "capitulation" to some sort of black participation in government, drew only 9% of the vote, while the moderate National Unifying Force received...
...future I have been a public person always, and I continue to be a public person, unfortunately, except that I don't go to the office, and I don't have the same sort of feeling of responsibility. I had looked forward to not being Prime Minister, but I didn't realize I would feel this relief, as if a stone had been removed. I don't have any [political] plans, none at all. I can't have an anticipation of the future, because I just don't know what the government...
...gonna change the world, sort of," declared Mike Wimer '81. After a bit of reflection, and some suggested amendments to his statement by a group of freshmen standing nearby, Wimer added, "This is gonna be a partying class...
...Theroux's Ayer Hitam, cultures no longer collide; they sort of frisk each other. "Between jungle and viability, there is nothing," he writes, "just the hubbub of struggling mercenaries, native and expatriate, staking their futile claims." Among them is Margaret Harbottle, one of the ubiquitous breed of freeloaders who roam the world as travel writers, and a toadish old sultan called Buffles, who keeps the past alive with elaborate polo parties. The village itself is a cultural stockpot of Chinese secret societies, Communist cells, Indian sports clubs and groups calling themselves the South Malaysian Pineapple Growers' Association...