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RACES Black Expo in Chicago Black Expo was billed as the largest gathering of black businessmen in history. When the five-day trade fair opened in Chicago last week, there were representatives of nearly 400 black firms on hand to prove the premise. But before the week was out, Black Expo proved to be more than a display of the products of America's fledgling black capitalism. It turned out to be an unofficial convention of entrepreneurs and politicians in search of power at the polls as well as in the marketplace...
Neither professor spared the rod--they assigned a total of ten, plays, four books and untold pounds of articles, and they managed to squeeze ten hours of lectures each into the five-day semesters. The alumni were duly diligent: classes began at 8:45 a.m., continued until 1 p.m., and then resumed in the form of hour-long section meetings after lunch...
...Lewe (Long May He Live), the Afrikaans equivalent of For He's a Jolly Good Fellow. Surprisingly for South Africa, the object of their hearty tribute was a black man, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, President of the tiny African state of Malawi, Last week Banda concluded a five-day state visit to South Africa; he was the first black President ever to visit the white-dominated Republic and the first chief of any foreign state to come calling since England's King George VI turned...
...shotgun. Sentenced to life imprisonment for first-degree murder, he went to Arkansas' infamous Cummins Prison Farm. "Once I was beaten every day for a month," he recalls, "because I didn't have the money to pay off a trusty." Transferred to another prison, he earned a five-day leave and promptly fled to Detroit, where his mother lived...
...superb. The island has a soccer field, golf course, assorted tennis and volleyball courts and no fewer than 21 bars. The specialty of the island is the "gozomie," a marathon blast that is thrown when anyone reaches the end of his nine-month tour and goes home. Over the five-day Christmas holiday, the men consumed 500 quarts of liquor, 12,500 bottles of beer, and 2,000 pints of draft beer...