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...Broom. Over the years he kept close tabs on the leaders and chiefs of his native land (where the blacks outnumber whites nearly 400 to 1). He constantly denounced the British plan for forming a federation of Nyasaland and the two Rhodesias (where there are more white settlers), insisted that the Colonial Office continue to rule Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland until the two countries were ready for independence. When the federation went through, Banda sold his practice, moved to the Gold Coast, to Kumasi in the land of the Ashanti. There he became a friend of Kwame Nkrumah...
...started a week ago. Portia--a toothy, freckled, hayseed and broom-bottom blonde from North Dakota's School of Co-ed Agriculture--began her first week of Harvard's summer session with a stroll. The day was heavy with clouds and traffic and disillusion, a time of ivory idols crumbling and tears in the lemonade. For Portia's dream died hard...
When Nathan Marsh Pusey took over the presidency of Harvard five years ago, he was a new broom that swept in religion. An even newer if considerably smaller broom is now trying to sweep some of it out again. Pusey and his emphasis on religion were being breezily challenged by a second-year graduate student in philosophy, William Warren Bartley III ('56). Vehicle of his attack: an 8,000-word Crimson article on Harvard's "button-down hair shirt...
Sweepstakes. In Detroit, three thieves robbed a grocery of beer, wine and assorted meats, realized they would leave tracks in the snow, took a broom from a rack and carefully erased their footprints as they went, were caught anyway by police, who simply followed broom marks to the right door...
Roses & Romance. As educational director, the Professor also edited the garbageman's house organ, The Hired Broom, wrote inspiring editorials ("Out of Garbage There Grows a Rose"), so enthralled his readers with the feeling for the romance of garbage that one collector re-christened his wagon Egabrag, hardly less appealing when spelled backwards...