Love Me, love My Wife!
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By GEORGE B. RUSS
Gladys was as giddy as a
spinster aunt on a date she
had been contemplating for a
long, long time. After days,
weeks, months and years the
hunt—the stalking of the prey
had come to an end.
The novelty of the affair
was the mainspring of Gladys*
bewilderment. The outcome
of habitual get togethers had
blinded her to the truth about
love—she had perform
ed with the dexterity of a lady
bear. The shortest distance
between two points was all
that had mattered. Out of
sight, out of mind was the
marriage contract she had lived
up to after the first five years
of being a wife. "Too tired,
1 don't want my hair mussed
up; go to sleep, you need the
rest; I have taken a laxative;"
were the trite excuses she had
used to steer her sweetie-pie
away.
Tonight, in the rear of
Beamon's delivery van, she
had reached a vertex that she
had long ago forgotten. But
Chad had made love like an
old stage trooper. He had cued
her in at the right moment
to display her talents at their
best. And she tossed her out
moded martial inhibitions into
oblivion. Never, but never
ever would she shy away from
his virile attacks. She would
use every method in the book
to seduce and satisfy her mate.
The icy night wind and the
noisy, happy shoppers at the
shopping center, where Buster
Brown was parked, seemed dis
ant remotely unknown to the
world upon which she glided
as gracefully as a humming
bird from one exotic flower to
another. Chad had left her
in an exhilarating head spin.
The distance between the
shopping center and home was
less three miles, but it took
her nearly 20 minutes to span
half the icy cold distance, she
drove slowly, in hypnotic re
trospection—reliving each de
licious moment she had spent
with Chad. She had to give
Gffie Jefferies a high score
on one count, she had thor
oughly drilled her husband.
Gladys' spurious laughter was
short lived; Effie Jefferies was
a hellish woman. Bitchy. Li
centious. She was no joking
matter.
Amalgmation might be a
quick solution to the existing
love triangle, but she would
have to become a great deal
more broadminded than her
present state of mind allowed.
Sharing Chad was out of the
question. And, if mayhem
was the method she must em
ploy, mayhem was the answer.
Stopping to conquer was not
a lost art to her, but negative
reasoning always left her worse
off than her losing opponent.
The flow of traffic at 501
going north was terrific and
Gladys was happy that she was
going south until her attention
was drawn to Beamon's gold
lettered, deep purple truck.
She gasped with outrage. The
woman seated beside the dri
ver was Effie Jefferies. Who
was the driver? He was hidden
to the far right of the woman
she rode along as though she
wefe groping her way through
the spooky night.
Miles of black asphalt high
way unfolded like a torpid,
wet-back monster before her
tired, burning eyes. And just
before crossing the railroad
crossing, Gladys decided vehe
mently that she was going to
leave off the hot pursuit, turn
back, go home and prepare
the meal she had promised
Nier family. She shuddered
when she realized the time.
Buster Brown rounded the
curve of the dark lowland and
came into the residential zone
of northwest Sandhrin Boule
vard when she spotted Bea
mon's delivery truck turn off
the highway into Grotham
Road. Bringing the rambler
to a quick stop, she parked,
got out and crossed the high
way and walked along the
crunchy shoulders of the road
until she reached the spreading
oak tree growing on Effie
Jefferies spacious lawn. In
an effort to avoid the light
on the corner, Gladys crossed
the lawn and stood under the
tree. She was afraid that an
animal would spring from some
dark corner an d chase her out
of hiding, but she decided not
to get any closer to the big
white house. She just stood
waiting for whatever she ex
pected to happen.
Lights came on inside the
big house and the lights seem
ingly gave credibility to her
precarious stand. And she
sensed a pale warmth in the
air that was some comfort to
her foolhardy action, then the
lights in the rear of the house
went off. A thick blackness
shrouded the area. After
awhile the lights in the front
of the house went off and
a shadowy, restless darkness
settled over the countryside.
Gladys was more stunned
now than she had been at
anytime during this illfated
evening. Now she wanted to
know what was going on be
tween Chad and Effie. Were
they making love, or, just lying
awake talking? While she
pondered in her heart what to
do next, snow began falling
fast and furiously —.
Pre-Freshmen
Program Held
At St. Augustine
SAINT AUGUSTINE'S COL
LEGE will conduct a Summer
Program for Pre-Freshmen to
provide orientation and college
adjustment experiences to pros
pective Freshmen who have al
ready been admitted to the
College. The Program will be
gin on June 5 and extend
through July 7. The Program
is being supported by a grant
from the Jessie Smith Noyes
Foundation as approved at its
Board of Directors' meeting on
January 27, 1972 and made
payable over a three year period.
It is to be used for students
within the Differentiated Curri
culum program.
In addition, Reading and
Writing courses are designed to
enable the student to remove
deficiencies in communicative
skills. Group Dynamics ses
sions aS well as Cultural Enrich
ment and Black Identification
activities will be included. Spe-
l by Joe
Black unity.
This is a subject we all think about. Something
we've listened to lots of people talk about. Some
thing we all talk about, among ourselves.
But after all the thinking, all the talking, all the
effort we put in toward making Black unity work,
where exactly does it really begin?
Basically, if Black unity is to build, it must exist
on a solid foundation, instead of shifting sands.
And this foundation must reflect the way we honor
and respect each other. All of us. Especially our
Black women.
Black is beautiful, of course. But Black woman
hood is especially beautiful in times of crisis. Our
sisters have great strength. They have enor
mous courage. And a very special sense of social
conscience.
Social conscience? What is that? Simply the abil
ity to care. To see right and wrong in situations
where others may be blinded by the heat of the
moment. And to react for the right reasons.
This quality of social conscience alone can help
to keep all of us together. And keep us all together,
to effect positive changes for all Blacks.
Until Black men really begin to give our women
the respect they have earned and richly deserve,
then the newly found Black unity that we all think
about and talk about is somehow without the
foundation it needs to survive.
And, unfortunately, is therefore doomed to
failure.
Jot'&hck
Vice President
The Greyhound Corporation
World Wide
Administrators
Meet At UNC
CHAPEL HILL—Uni vereity
administrators from all over the
world will be meeting in Chapel
Hill as the first International
Study Group on the continuing
project of University Popula
tion Programs, June 4-6.
Chancellors and Vice-Chan
cellors from Turkey, Gtana,
Thailand, Iran, Brazil, Nigeria
and Egypt will attend at the
invitation of University of
North Carolina President
William Friday.
The group will be concerned
with the development of broad,
interdisciplinary service-oriented
population programs around
the world, Dr. Rolf P. Lynton,
project director, said.
The Carolina Population
Center here said each university
represented in the group plays
a key role in its country and
region.
Chancellor N. Ferebee Tay
lor of the Chapel Hill campus
of UNC and Dr. Cecil G. Sheps,
Vice Chancellor for Health Sci
ences, will attend the opening
session.
"We all need to learn more
about what universities can pro
perly undertake and how to
overcome the practical difficul
ties of staffing, funding and in
ternal organization, of relating
teaching to research and to ser
vice," Lynton said.
The meeting in Chapel Hill
will concern project strategy
and priorities, including infor
mation and publications policy,
according to Lynton.
Four basic themes will be
covered during the discussions.
The first concerns whether new
broad and field-oriented popu
lation programs should be es
tablished in universities, Minis
tries or independently. Second-
cial tutorial, counseling and
testing will help in providing
meaningful educational exper
iences for the students.
Supportive facilities of the
College will be available in
counseling, testing and career
planning for the forty (40)
students who have shown en
thusiasm in being selected as
participants. More than this
number of prospective students
who have already been admitted
to the College for the Fall
semester have applied to parti
cipate, but have been accepted
as alternates in the Program.
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WASHINGTON MARTHA DUNCAN, 23
(LEFT) and Aletha Thomas, 22, of Washing
ton, D. C. rehearse "The Nixon," a new dance
created by famed jazz musician Lionel Hamp
ton. Aletha, a secretary in D. C. Mayor Wal
ter Washington's office, is a contestant in this
year's Miss Black District of Columbia contest
and a student at the Barblzon School of Mod
elling- Martha, Office Manager at the Com
ly, Universities are generally
discouraged with these kinds of
programs, and they are often
costly failures, Lynton said.
"Another question is that
population cannot be studied
separately but must be com
bined with ecology, employ
ment and other public affairs
issues," he said.
"Developing new programs,
in population or anything else,
is way down on the list of
pressing work to be done in
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DURHAM COCA-COLA BOTTLING CO. ;
mittee for the He-election of the President, Is
studying ballet. They will join four other
"Nixonettes" to introduce the dance at the SIOO
--plate dinner climaxing the "Getting Our
selves Together" meetings Friday and Satur
day in the Washington Hilton Hotel. Tickets
are still available from Willie C. Mason. 1028
Connecticut Ave., N. W., Suite 1003, Wash
ington.
universities," he continued.
"First comes managing the
bulging student population and
such items as faculty salaries
and housing—and these seem to
exhaust the available time."
Co-directors from UNC at
Chapel Hill are Dr. John
Graham of the School of Medi
cine, Prof. Amos Hawley of
sociology, Prof. Trois Johnson
of maternal and child health
and Prof. Arnold Nash of reli
gion.
North Carolina State co
director is Jackson A. Rignev
and Joseph Spengler is co
director from Duke University.
The less tender cuts
of lamb—breast, riblets,
neck and shanks can be
braised slowly to make
excellent, and tender
lamb dishes, points out
Mrs. Ruby Uzzle, exten
sion consumer marketing
economist, North Caro
lina State University.
Saturday, Jurw 17, 1972 THE CAROLINA T—l
The water food budget ot
$239,400 includes a 19 per cent
raifc for all employee of that
I. department
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