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Njoroge's quest for his M.D. would make the arduous road of the average U.S. medical student look like roses all the way. Son of a Kikuyu Christian who ran a small general store, Njoroge wanted to go to a U.S. college. But Kenya bureaucrats refused him necessary papers, hoping to keep him within the empire for ideological safety. So Njoroge made it the long way around, via Pretoria (B.S. at the University of South Africa) and London, peddling cosmetics and doing odd jobs. In London, broader-minded officials gave him a permit to study...
...Lama demolished this feeble Red legend. At the tea planters' town of Tezpur, he stated "categorically," in the third-person style expected of a god, that he left Lhasa and Tibet and came to India "of his own will and not under duress," and said that his "quite arduous" escape was only possible "due to the loyalty and affectionate support of his Tibetan people." In unemotional language (he was pledged not to embarrass his Indian hosts) he bluntly accused the Red Chinese of destroying a large number of monasteries, killing lamas and forcing monks and officials into labor camps...
Under Ike's belt last week, besides golf, were four days of comparative rest after arduous weeks of working as President even while pitching in harder than ever before on foreign policy during the absence of Foster Dulles. With Congress recessing and rushing out of Washington, the President scheduled a light week. He held his 155th press conference, ranged from summit talk to the possibility of using Texas cabbages to feed out-of-work coal miners in Kentucky and Pennsylvania ("I happen to be one of those people who likes cabbage in all its forms"). He welcomed a gathering...
...Chattanooga, Tenn., where he built the accelerator, he and a research team of schoolboy scientists hope this summer to fire off a stratospheric rocket with a 20-lb. instrument payload. The first-prize winner also plays chess, wrestles on the varsity team at Baylor, talks enthusiastically about the arduous pleasures of spelunking, plans a cave-exploring trip this spring. Other top winners...
...trifle weary from her duties as the nation's No.1 hostess, Mamie Eisenhower will start her second two-week tour of arduous, low-caloric duty this month at Maine Chance, the high-priced ($400 to $600 a week) ladies-only rejuvenating ranch in Arizona run by Beautycoon Elizabeth Arden. Although her first session (TIME, March 3) was on the house, this time Mamie will...