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Avenues to the Soul. Since then, Perry Smith has ruled over his 290 students and eight buildings with a genial but unchallenged authority. A big (6 ft. 2 in.), broad-shouldered man, he started each day by shaking hands with every child in the lower school-partly to put them...
Waking in Nyeri's police stockade were half a dozen British Tommy gunners and one sad-faced black man wearing a turtleneck pullover, sandals and khaki shorts. The black man was Waruhiu Itote, 32, alias General China, one of the Mau Mau's bloodthirstiest killers. Captured and sentenced...
By last week China had written 26 "surrender" letters to Mau Mau chieftains, including "General Cargo," who operates north of Nairobi, and scar-faced Dedan Kimathi, alias Field Marshal Russia. The letters were delivered by armored cars to jungle letter boxes in hollow trees and to Mau Mau couriers waiting...
The fiercest clash came at Karatina, a village north of Nairobi. There. British police, supported by the 7th Battalion of the King's African Rifles, collided head-on with a powerful Mau Mau foray. The terrorists turned and fled, but their leader was shot in the throat. Captured alive...
Died. Rebecca ("Becky") Buhay, 57. one of the founders of Canada's Workers' (Communist) Party in 1922; of cancer; in Toronto. When the government temporarily outlawed the party in 1940 for opposing the war effort. Becky Buhay went underground, and in 1943 emerged to help reorganize 18,000...