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...appeared to be in control until George T. Dalluge, a 22-year-old senior from Minnesota's Mankato State Teachers College, climbed up an arched traffic light and rallied the crowd. He chinned himself, hung by his knees, and led the transfixed students in The Star-Spangled Banner...
...Gateway. Frustrated in the Arab and Moslem worlds, Nasser has turned his propaganda and subversion techniques on Africa, which he considers rightly his to lead, since, he says, Egypt "guards the northern gateway." But he has attracted to his doubtful banner chiefly the fanatics, crackpots and dissidents. In a ramshackle, flaking mansion in the Cairo suburb of Zamalek, a dozen African "political exiles" compile tracts denouncing the imperialists and pro-Western nationalists, broadcast regularly on "The Voice of Free Africa." The U.A.R. has set up "cultural centers" in Somalia, the Sudan and Ghana, and it has become fashionable for prosperous...
Heaven help the Laotians, the Congolese and other unfortunate peoples as our starry-eyed young zealots march forth under the banner of the Peace Corps to escape the draft and save the world...
Nkrumah's goal is to unite crumbling colonial Africa in a vast, new black empire under Ghana's banner. To spread the gospel, he employs the slickest public relations outfit in Africa, Accra's Bureau of African Affairs. The bureau was set up in 1957, when Africa was still largely in white men's shackles. But its efforts today seem aimed as much at upsetting black regimes that do not cooperate with Nkrumah as at white colonialism...
...fell on the banner hanging on the wall which proclaimed Novogoro Agricultural Cooperative Mr. K.'s alma mater...