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With the technicians came the machin ery of a Communist police state; last year Toure's goons were busily cleaning up the opposition with clubs and guns. The passive Guineans learned the lesson quickly, and today Guinea is docile and orderly. Now Toure is trying to whip up support for his "human investment" program, in which "volunteers" on the Chinese model are supposed to spend their idle hours building highways and schools. But being Guineans, the human investors do more dancing and laughing than shoveling, for hard work is neither traditional nor wise in the West African...
...salons they can rattle off a demand for an "important dress-it-up-or-dress-it-down basic black or solid mix-and-match that can be accessorized." But in the past year, even the most eloquent fashion arbiters have seemed strangely inarticulate as they asked their designers to whip up ''something simple, a little nothing, really.'' The term stuck like a Zipper. Last week, as the first of the new fall wholesale collections were previewed in the Manhattan showrooms, the "little nothing'' was a big something for the new fashion year...
...Rugby Club Saturday concluded its most successful season in several years. While the first fifteen ended with a respectable 4-2-1 record, the Club as a whole managed to field two complete teams with two separate schedules, upset highly-touted Princeton, outdraw the baseball team, and whip the Cricket Club at cricket...
Finally, Sellers took matters into his own hands. "I shook the stick at him," he said, "and he started to run." Veering to the outside, Carry Back flashed past the exhausted Globemaster and pulled even with Crozier. Again Sellers waved his whip; again Carry Back responded. At the finish, the brown colt was in front by almost a length. Carry Back had earned another $120,500, and crewcut Jockey Sellers-at 23, the nation's leading jockey (TIME, March 24)-had won his first Kentucky Derby. "All I had to do," said Sellers modestly, "was ask that horse...
Captain Fred Howard leads the list of 880 entrants with a 1:51.4 performance, but it is too much to hope that he can whip Carroll of Yale. Still, he might...