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Outcasts. The mercenaries' salaries run from $1,700 a month upward. But payday is at best a sporadic affair in besieged Biafra. In any case, money is probably not the major reason for their presence. It is not the land, either, for they seem to have no eyes for the green rolling infinity of the African bush, the visionary sunsets, the humming, warm, smoky nights. They are lobos, outcasts from society who fight every day in order to taste the excitement that comes in living close to violent death. If they survive Biafra, they will doubtless drift...
Throughout a summer of sizzling sales, Detroit's auto executives kept revising upward their estimates of how Calendar Year 1968 would turn out. What kept them from getting really carried away was the nagging fear that the 1969 models, which would enter the showrooms by October and bear higher price tags but few major styling changes, might meet with buyer resistance. That fear has all but evaporated. As Ford Executive Vice President Lee lacocca put it, Calendar 1968 is a "lead-pipe cinch" to wind up as the best sales year in history, surpassing the 1965 record...
...Hoppes are not happy. The world they were born to, a white world of upward mobility based on hard work, has been threatened by the storms of social change They now find it an incomprehensible world of yippies and hippies, riots, crime and inconclusive war, and they long for solutions couched in phrases that they can understand and relate to themselves. Their quiet protest, voiced in tones of dismay and bewilderment rather than anger, has led them to espouse George Wallace. The candidate from Alabama expresses their ideas as though he has read their minds...
...special help. At some point, other businessmen are bound to complain that such aid gives Negroes an unfair competitive advantage. But for now, black capitalism has proved to be a beneficent form of black power, moving gradually toward the kind of green power that has led every other group upward in American society...
...paintings, could talk to each other in a stately pidgin English, but colors, the adjectives and adverbs, often garbled the conversation to an incoherent babble. Only in his last years did Kline make color do his bidding. Orange and Black Wall, one of his later paintings, lunges upward and off the canvas like a giant rocket, rising up on the strength of its flaming boosters. Red Painting mounts an enigmatic black rectangle in a morning-red sky that endows it with a warning eloquence and precision...