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...Cubans have competed fiercely, especially with the city's Negroes, for menial jobs. Negro domestics have started a slanderous whispering campaign, admitting that Cuban women will work for less, but claiming they cannot be trusted around husbands in the households where they are employed. A Miami druggist explains another cause for resentment: "A Cuban comes in here and says in broken English. 'How much you pay your soda fountain dishwasher?' I tell him. and he offers to work for half as much...
...Clock she finds her lonely souls, the innocent and the unarmed, in an aged judge, two adolescent boys, one Negro, the other white, and a dying middle-aged druggist. J. T. Malone, the druggist, is a drab fixture in the small Southern town of Milan who has emptied his life filling prescriptions. His approaching death from leukemia is the biggest thing that ever happened to him. For a time, he and his gnawing terror promise to dominate Clock, but he is destined for a fictional fate worse than death-to become a symbol of the brevity of life and life...
...these characters never find reality as absorbing as their own besetting fantasy. Fantasy is the reprisal of the powerless against a world they cannot change. The fantasy of the dying druggist is simply that he is not dying, even while he is. The fantasy of the judge is that he can get the Government to redeem Confederate money, $10 million of which he happens to have. Jester's fantasy revolves around the suicide of his father: if he can discover the cause of that, he feels, he will establish his own identity. Sherman is also an identity searcher...
Property owners are. understandably, enchanted. Says Druggist Clyde Godfrey: "I have one building that on the open market wouldn't have brought a penny. My drugstore isn't worth more than a thousand dollars. I own another store over there that isn't worth more than $1.000. And I've got a piece of rental property that wouldn't have sold for more than $800. The urban renewal agency paid...
...rebel Algerian F.L.N. last week abruptly turned left. After three years under the relatively benign leadership of Premier Ferhat Abbas, 61, an ex-druggist who speaks better French than Arabic and has a middle-class habit of falling asleep after a good dinner, control shifted to a clutch of hard-eyed terrorists who had survived street battles and mountain skir mishes in the seven-year war against the French...