Word: aug
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...scandal over Kenya's Hola camps, where eleven African prisoners had been beaten to death by guards, had come the Devlin report (TIME, Aug. 3) calling the British protectorate of Nyasaland a "police state" and challenging the Colonial Office's need to avert an African "massacre" of white settlers that never took place. There were editorial outcries that Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd should resign; his office had been discredited by the very commission it had appointed, headed by a British high-court justice and including on its staff Lord Montgomery's wartime Chief of Intelligence...
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...Aug. 1 P.G.A. Golf Tournament (CBS, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). Dow Finsterwald will defend his title at the Minneapolis Golf Club...
...Aug. 2 Johns Hopkins File 7 (ABC, 12:30-1 p.m.). Military Historian Walter Millis riffles through old pictures and eyewitness drawings in an effort to help a new generation understand what Grandpa meant when he shouted: "Remember the Maine and to Hell with Spain." The Ed Sullivan Show...
Born. To Earl Belle, 27, Pittsburgh's boy wonder of finance, who ran off to Brazil to escape the clutches of the FBI and SEC when his watered empire collapsed (TIME, Aug. 4), leaving three banks short $825,000, is now lushly living it up in Rio de Janeiro, and Naoma Wallman, 25, blondish showgirl: their first child, a son; in Rio de Janeiro. Name: Clint Randolph. Weight...