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...million watched; millions listened to the warm young voices, the sonorous old voices. Billions of words about it were printed, and closely read. In Accra, where the equatorial sun beats down on the white church steeples (relics of a vanished Danish empire), parties were held in celebration. Paris noted it, and Panama. In heedless Manhattan, thousands got out of bed at 6 a.m. to hang over radios. Shanghai and Hankow had never seen so many weddings; Chinese brides deemed it lucky to be married on the day that Elizabeth, heiress to Britain's throne, became the wife of Philip Mountbatten...
Horwitz comments on the institution: "The Mask and Spear's countertop is finished with Supergloss, the Michael Jordan of synthetic finishes. One coat is equivalent to a whopping forty coats of polyurethane. The Mask and Spear's guest book boasts over 120 signatures, among them dignitaries from Accra, Monterrey, Budapest, and Paris. Advanced HorwitzSonic wiring carries audio power among six speakers in two rooms...only the finest materials were used in appointing the Mask and Spear--including carved South African objects obtained by Cito Horwitz, and adhesive tape from Luxembourg whose installation came at the cost of $100 term bill...
Born in the urban tropics of Accra, Ghana's capital, Ashong moved to the United States when he was three. He lived in Cambridge while his father earned a master's degree at the Harvard School of Public Health and in Brooklyn, in a one-bedroom apartment on Lenox Road, close to Kings County Hospital...
Ashong's father, Emmanuel, grew up poor in Accra, speaking Ga, Akan, and the King's English. As a third year medical student, he married a young nurse of royal background. Her father was born to become the chief of the Larteh people but declined to be enstooled. Nonetheless, Stella Asiedu-Akrofi Ashong and her family retained the privileges and obligations of Ghanian royalty...
...ACCRA, Ghana: Erstwhile fighter pilot and coup leader Jerry Rawlings appears headed for reelection in Ghana's Saturday elections. With 60 percent of the voting districts reporting, President Rawlings was leading with 57 percent, while John Agyekum Kufuor had 39 percent of the vote. Rawlings, who first seized power in a 1979 coup, ruled over a single-party state until winning the 1992 elections with nearly 59 percent of the vote. Voter turnout was estimated at 65 percent to 70 percent of Ghana's 9.2 million eligible voters. Despite protests of election fraud by Kufuor supporters, international observers said there...