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Tension began rising sharply nine weeks ago, when ten Trinidadian students were fined $33,000 by a Canadian court for wrecking a $1,000,000 computer center at Montreal's Sir George Williams University to protest discrimination against blacks. The episode caused great resentment on Trinidad. The islands' black Prime Minister, Eric Williams, 58, who led his nation to independence from Britain eight years ago, promptly paid the students' fines, but his gesture failed to appease the militants. Threatened with strikes by sugar, bus and postal workers, Williams declared a state of emergency and arrested 13 militants...
...Harvard team that boasts no Mottleys is more than able to cope with the Trinidadian's challenge. Ed Meehan has never set a world record while running in his sneakers, but he is a strong, courageous, exciting runner who should win the 880 and the mile. Yale has no sprinter who can stay with Aggrey Awori, no hurdler in a class with Tony Lynch, no two-miler who can challenge Walt Hewlett on a good (though the Elis' Ross o Dell has caught Hewlett on bad days before). If Yale's pole vaulters and javelin men are fairly sure winners...
...Elis can count on only three sure victories and two of those will be the doing of Captain Wendell Mottley, a Trinidadian who holds the world indoor record in the 440-yard run. The Crimson doesn't have anyone who can stay near him at that distance, so the Elis are shoo-ins in the 440 and the mile relay...
...here to stay") is corrupting a fine old tradition, just as oldtime jazz lovers thought big-band, arranged jazz was a sad decline from the old, improvised New Orleans roughhouse. In fact, few of the current U.S. calypso performers could compete with King Radio, a little one-eyed Trinidadian who is fondly remembered for his pithy self-portrait...
...Education an' qualification an' distinction is the order o' de day." Higgins is heading for a cooks' school, hopes to wind up in the galley of the Queen Mary. Collis wants to be a writer. Dickson expects to get a teaching job. But one Trinidadian, known simply as Strange Man, scoffs at education as a "rope they givin' you to hang yuhself wid." His own reason for emigrating is simple: "Well, 'tis simply because ah little tired. Ah sick, bored." London, for these island innocents, becomes the arena of a bitter struggle for survival...