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...clipper races in, the chum begins to fly. The high-booted fishermen stand precariously in shallow metal scuppers that hang like balconies over the water, and they wield stout poles from which dangle a short line and a large bare hook. The tuna flash up to take the chum, and many get a hook instead. In hook, out fish, in hook, out fish-the work falls quickly into a pounding rhythm that maddens the blood like drums. The deck-holes are filling fast with 20-pounders that flail like thunder as the blood-mist steams above their thousand throes...
...prefers to eat with his wife, son and daughter-in-law in the kitchen. His wife still cooks his meals and darns his socks. His personality and manners, his leisured kindliness, have remained utterly unchanged by a generation in power. But he likes power, and he knows how to wield it. "The world," says Ben-Gurion, "is not yet accustomed to the revival of a sovereign Jewish state after 2,000 years of its suppression. Even the Jews are not yet convincingly accustomed to it." The key to his vehemence today is that this visionary leader, as fiercely perfectionist...
Prime Minister Strydom, who is bound and determined that the whites shall wield all the power in a nation where they are outnumbered four to one, wanted to get the last non-white voters-the 45,000 colored (mixed-race) folk-off the white voting lists. The High Court said he could not, without a two-thirds vote in Parliament. So the Nationalists decided to pack the Senate to get the bill through, and to pack the court to make sure that it was held constitutional. At that point, many who agreed with Strydom's policy of white dominance...
Cambridge's gallant police force guarded both the people and the polls yesterday, but only through the kindness of the men in pin-striped suits who wield the city's power. With their colorful ties carefully knotted, the City Councilmen trouped into their meeting this Monday for a pre-election fan-fare. Also on hand was Police Chief Patrick F. Ready, who settled into his chair as the meeting came to order...
...Meeting Cassandra in person for the first time, says one old friend, is like being "involved in an extremely unpleasant motor crash." But neither his barbed manner nor the arrogance of his column is any accident. Says Cassandra: "I know how to be hostile, suspicious and skeptical. I can wield these unlovable qualities like a whip...