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...indefatigable worker, Zeinab Wali organized Nigerian Girl Guide and Brownie units, preached subtle emancipation propaganda on a weekly radio program called "Women's Chapter," and actively encouraged other women to be less timid and go for drives in her blue-black Vauxhall sedan. To women friends walled up in purdah in their compounds, she slips secret messages about the beauties of the world outside. Her description of birds and flowers so fascinated one friend, the wife of a Cabinet minister in Kaduna, that the wife screwed up her courage, presented Zeinab's letter to her husband and demanded...
...come straight out of the 18th century. In those days, Sizer once said, "things were done in real style." In his own way he tried to keep that style alive. Few sights were more impressive than that of Theodore Sizer marching majestically across the campus with his ancient blue-black cape billowing out behind...
...balloon rose rapidly, glinting in the sun. At 56,400 ft., Commander Lewis reported that he and Commander Ross were having coffee, a prime necessity of Navy men. Somewhat later he remarked that the sky was clear and dark blue-black. The balloon continued to climb. In two hours and 50 minutes it passed the Army's altitude record (72,395 ft.) and reached...
...approximately the same hour, 75 miles to the northwest in the mushrooming city of Riverside (pop. 72,000), a short, coffee-skinned man with blue-black hair and an easy smile finished a hefty breakfast, stepped into his air-conditioned 1950 Buick and set off on a long round of meetings, conferences and calls aimed at Jackie Cochran's undoing. He was Dalip Singh Saund, 57, an India-born Sikh who came to the U.S. as a student and stayed on to become a citizen, a successful businessman, a California district judge and Jackie Cochran's Democratic opponent...
...biggest irrigated regions on earth, and one of the richest. In this improbable winter garden last week, warming up for a congressional race, were two improbable political candidates: a platinum blonde who fought her way from hideous poverty to fame and riches, and a county judge with blue-black hair and coffee-colored skin who was born in Amritsar, India...