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...villa in France, at Easton, Pa., frequently flies in a planeload of friends for Lafayette College games. He has an 1812 mansion in Morristown, NJ., which he has converted into an office, commutes to Manhattan twice a week. He lives on a 64-acre estate in nearby Harding Township with his wife Marian, close to their four children...
...first of these eleven short stories, a man and his wife, living a life of crushing respectability in an awful welfare-state township, pray to the Virgin to be relieved of their childlessness. Their prayers are answered. But the Madonna in "heir church, a figure carved from Irish Dog oak, is black as ebony; so, too, is their first-born child. This merciless story makes plain that neither inheritance nor adultery with a Jamaican can explain the couple's embarrassingly Negroid blessing. For all its apparent defiance of realism, this kind of Spark fiction-typical of most tales...
...home, the republican government will have to do its best to prevent the outbreak of another Sharpeville. After 68 African demonstrators had been killed and nearly 200 wounded by police fire at Sharpeville township near Johannesburg last March, condemnation of South Africa's racial policies came from many nations, including the United States...
Royal Oak Township's Carver Elementary School is "a cinderblock monstrosity," is it? Well, this is the school I had to build in a nearby village one day last year toward the finish of the monsoon, and in two days of end-of-monsoon rain, it looked like this (see cut). When the four months' rain totaled 250 in., the kids moved into a 10 by 10 cowshed darker than the Black Hole and as miry as Andersonville; and when the cows needed shelter we had to move out again...
...half-square-mile remainder of a once larger township, which split up into such cities as Berkeley and nearby Royal Oak, where rabble-rousing Father Charles E. Coughlin made his radio tirades during...