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Joseph Loverde was working at his buffer in the Haber Corp.'s four-story metal-products factory in Chicago last week when a belt slipped off the machine. Sparks flew, and with a whoosh ignited the fine aluminum dust that hung in the air. "It was like looking into a big gun and having it go off in your face," a bandage-swathed survivor recalled afterward...
...settlers plan to evict all Kikuyus from a five-mile-wide buffer zone surrounding the 12,000-ft. Aberdare Mountains-the Mau Mau stronghold. By creating a Malaya-style dead zone, patrolled day & night, the planters hope to deprive the Mau Mau of food, weapons and recruits, ultimately starve them into submission. The trouble with eviction is that the settlers themselves depend on the Kikuyus to harvest their crops, dig their wells and cook their food...
...Northern Buffer. Now the British House of Commons must approve, on behalf of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and a referendum must be held in Southern Rhodesia, where some of the whites oppose Lyttelton's safeguards as "cotton-woolling" the blacks.* Sir Godfrey is sure that his plan will be accepted. One advantage of a united Rhodesia: if Prime Minister Malan detaches South Africa from the Crown as a Boer Republic, Britain will still have a strong bulwark on Malan's northern frontier...
...talks a blue streak. Inevitably, Billy's closest companions are members of his ten-man team, six of whom, including the pressagent, are also ministers. (His wife seldom travels with him.) A close-knit and devoted group, they handle the organizational details, and do their best to buffer Billy from the constant press of the crowd. They do their job so well that the president of the Southern Baptist Convention once told Graham: "Billy, I'm sure glad the Lord is easier to get to than...
...Italy. Of these, the last is the least feasible as a point of repair, since the Communist Party inside the country is both the largest in Europe and the most active. Still, Italy is a much better prospect than either Germany or France. With Yugoslavia to act as a buffer. It is unlikely that the Russians will turn their attention to Italy before they have conquered Germany and France...