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...Tanganyika's civil service; later he moved into the trade union movement, became its boss, then in 1957, shifted into politics as a member of the colonial legislature. There was no doubt who would remain Tanganyika's boss. "Naturally, Nyerere will be more powerful; he is baba yetu, father of the nation," says Kawawa. "I am a party man. What the party says goes...
Shirley Temple's Storybook (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). The child star has grown into a storyteller with a special appeal for children. She starts her new series with All Baba and the 40 Thieves. Nehemiah Persoff plays...
...gnomes and malevolent dwarfs, but his technical approach to these appears off-hand, and insufficiently inventive. Though no design in this show is incompetent, most lack the power they might have had if Beardsley had been a little more adventurous and a little less facile. Even the fine Ali Baba, the epitome of gourmanderie, bulging with corpulence, could have used a more radical treatment. As it is, one finds it a very excellent, but conventional, treatment of an extremely unconventional subject...
Shirley Temple's Storybook (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).* Ali Baba, after all these generations, still has a fine time wresting the treasure from the Forty Thieves...
...time when Cronin graduated from B.C., the U.S.S.R. was claiming that "Ali Baba and his forty thieves were still at work in the Mid-East," and that about half of its Lend-Lease allotments were being carried off by stealthy Arabs. Cronin went to work for the Documentation Branch of the Persian Gulf Command in Teheran, where he dealt extensively with the Russians. He had been educated at Catholic schools, and found that the Russian's actions "were the antithesis of everything I had ever been taught." At a time when most of the people with whom he worked thought...