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Chin in Palm. On the farms of the Transvaal, bearded Afrikaner patriarchs, who still rule their Bantu field hands with a Bible in one hand and a rawhide sjambok whip in the other, were talking mostly of wool and cattle prices-and of their trip to Pretoria last...
...Somewhere," mused Heavyweight Champion Cassius Clay, 24, "there is a ten-year-old boy who is going to whip me." Meanwhile, Cassius is bumming around. Last week's punching bag was Brian London, a 32-year-old Blackpudlian whose face should be on posters warning, FASTEN YOUR SEATBELT. Cassius' motives for fighting London were 1) a pressing need for money (he must post a $50,000 alimony bond before Aug. 27 or go to jail), and 2) a fine regard for his personal safety. London already had been knocked out by Henry Cooper and Floyd Patterson-both...
American pilots have repeatedly been paraded before hostile street mobs during the past fortnight, possibly to whip up the populace for more drastic action. At one display, said the Communists, there were cries from the crowd...
Mobutu's whip hand has been felt everywhere. He consolidated the number of provinces from 21 to a more easily managed twelve, appointed the governors and their Cabinets himself. He rides herd over his own ministers, overruling their decisions at will and firing them at the slightest sign of disaffection. "What the Congolese need most is discipline," Mobutu says. "I have been teaching them discipline, and they have been listening to me. This gives me pleasure...
...took the Almighty six days to put together the Creation. Timothy S. Mayer needed nearly twice as long to whip up Oh What A Lovely War, which opened last night at Agassiz. The Lord should have taken more time. Mayer's is the better production...