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...which you cannot understand the central madness of nigger existence," he explains. "Beat a nigger, starve him, leave him wallowing, and he will be yours for life. Awe him by some unforeseen hint of philanthropy, tickle him with the idea of hope, and he will want to slice your throat...
...their seasons smoothly under way. The sets for Seattle's Otello had somehow got onto the wrong ship from Italy, and were put in place only 30 minutes before curtain time. San Francisco Opera Soprano Regine Crespin was forced out of the first-night Gioconda with a throat infection, and Substitute Leyla Gencer (who in past Coast seasons has filled in for Callas and Tebaldi) had to learn one of opera's cruelest roles in less than two weeks...
...Elbows. The new racket that Scott, Graebner and King used at Forest Hills looks for all the world like an oversized tea strainer. Made of tubular, chromium-plated steel, it is far more flexible than a wooden racket; its open-throat construction permits a faster swing with less effort. "It feels like a feather," says Billie Jean. Scott says the T2000 gives him a faster serve and better control on volleys. To Graebner, the T2000 has therapeutic value. Plagued for months by a painful case of "tennis elbow," he switched from wood to steel in July and the pain disappeared...
...range of from 12 ft. to 15 ft., the Mace's chemical stream (a tear-gas concentrate called phenylchloromethylketone) affects nerve ends and produces an instant shock and a choking sensation that incapacitate its victim as effectively as a blow on the head or a hand on the throat. Yet the chemical wears off after about 30 minutes, leaving no lasting aftereffects. In New Haven, Police Chief Francis McManus found it "highly effective" in quelling the mob. The Mace has also been use ful in everyday police work. In the year it has been used in Columbus, Ohio, says...
...According to an old saying, a fashionable woman can get by with just her pearls." Recalling this, Marie Louise Schroeder Hosford Whitney, 41, fourth wife of Multimillionaire Cornelius Vanderbilt ("Sonny") Whitney, 68, bravely fastened on the $500,000 string of pearls that had once adorned the throat of France's Empress Eugenie and set out for her own party at the Saratoga Golf Club. Even Marylou, as she has styled herself ever since she got to like the signature on her oil paintings, admitted that the big pearls might seem "too much" for just an afternoon tea dance...