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Authority Gone. Lumamba's followers promised cheering black audiences that they would get the white man's cars, houses-even womenfolk-when independence comes, and more than one Stanleyville resident was said to have answered a knock on the door to find an African asking to be shown the house he would be given after June 30. More ominously, Lumumba men produced a blacklist of Belgians who would be "eliminated" after independence unless they left the country. Sabena's daily jets to Europe were already jammed, and 80 special flights were scheduled to handle the rush...
...well. But, ominously, no "pipe talk" came back when the diggers tapped messages on the one water pipe that seemed to be intact, and a weary worker came to the surface shaking his head, saying, "It will take us a week to get near them." All through the night, womenfolk, some wailing, others grimly tightlipped, stood clinging to a fence near the shaft, their eyes glued to the huge lift wheels whose movements signal an ascending cage. The Salvation Army held services of prayer for the grieving; the services were segregated, one for white relatives and one for blacks...
...Knight and San Francisco Mayor George Christopher, pulled into town, and their Democratic opponent, Congressman Clair Engle, hopped from one airport to the next in a red and blue Cessna 310. G.O.P. Gubernatorial Hopeful William Fife Knowland flew out from Washington for a picnic in Riverside County, and his womenfolk bussed from Los Angeles to San Diego in their "Bill Knowland Special...
...city, wizened old Sidi Mohammed Tazi, the mendub of Tangier, ordered all women in Western dress arrested. Those who resisted had their clothes torn from them publicly by Tazi's police. "What is good for princesses," said the mendub, "is not good for other women. If our womenfolk put on Occidental clothes, they will try to become completely Occidental. They will drink, wear bathing suits and dance, and they will go to the beach by night and sleep with men on the sand...
...show with girls modeling U.S. ready-to-wear dresses at $20 and under. Out in the back of the model house was a home workshop stuffed with power tools which none of the Poles could really believe were just for do-it-yourself fun and not state property. Their womenfolk gaped in equal unbelief at a huge display of elaborate American toys-no Communist state can afford to waste production means on such frivolity as that-and the kids themselves reveled in a forest of vending machines, happily buying Cokes, candy and gum with nickels and dimes passed out gratis...