Word: friendlies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tampa, Fla., Mrs. William Allen Taylor read the same list and stopped at the same name. Spears, a close friend of her husband since the days when they were fellow convicts in the Florida State Prison at Raiford, had been visiting her husband in Tampa. Two days later in the mail she got a $37,500 air-travel insurance policy taken out by Al Taylor (divorced but still friendly) at Tampa Airport just before take-off time of the doomed DC-7B. Taylor was missing, although he was not listed on the plane's manifest...
...pleaded the antisegregation cases of the N.A.A.C.P. before the Supreme Court. The suggested second adviser: Peter Mbiyu Koinange, 53, one of 30 children of a Kikuyu chieftain, one of the first Africans to win U.S. scholarships, educated in the '20s (Hampton Institute, Ohio Wesleyan, Columbia). A longtime friend of Mau Mau Leader Jomo Kenyatta, Peter Koinange is one of the two Africans who, even after the end of the emergency, are listed by the government of Kenya as being "subject to detention" if they ever return home...
Moscow recently announced a discovery of diamond deposits in north central Siberia large enough to boost its output thirteenfold by 1965. Though the Siberian deposits seem to be gem stones, and the Communists do not want their women to think that diamonds are a girl's best friend, De Beers feared that the Russians might move into the world market and knock prices down. Quality industrial diamonds is what the Soviets want. Hence the deal: gems for De Beers, which can market them at best prices in the luxury markets of the West, and an assured supply of industrial...
...action moves on to the British club and the shocked reaction of the other colonials, ends with the novel's trial scene (in the book, 13 more chapters follow). The confused girl withdraws her charge against Aziz, but at the final curtain the Indian angrily faces his former friend, an English school principal, across an unbridgeable distance: "We do not understand each other. We are on different sides, and until there is no question of sides, we cannot be friends...
...shacking up with "can't-say-no girls," arranging for abortions, curing one hangover and planning the next. When the country cousin, a nice boy not too bright in school, comes to live with him, the rat nibbles away at the country boy's time, his girl friend (Juliette Mayniel), and his will to work. In the end the country cousin fails his examinations and the city cousin casually shoots him dead with a gun he didn't know was loaded. And that, the moral would seem to be, is one way to keep 'em down...