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...critic who makes judging a matter of principle-who keeps criticizing instead of trying to understand-is rather like a man with a cane, alone in a garden, decapitating weeds and flowers alike. Anything that has size or mystery about it stands in danger...
...seven-year sentence to "hard labor" is being spent as cook to six other Mau Mau leaders, and with a year off for good behavior, he is scheduled to be freed next month. Last week Kenyatta appeared in court in dapper leather jacket and carrying a silver-embossed ebony cane that was a gift of his followers. Whistling through a hole in his front teeth, he testified that he had never given anyone the Mau Mau oath. On the contrary, he had tried to stop the Mau Mau, but his own arrest had unleashed the bloody uprisings. Like Archbishop Makarios...
Most serious is a strike of sugar workers that has closed down 21 sugar-cane grinding mills. Before mid-May, when seasonal rains start, 5,800,000 tons of cane must be ground in the country's 161 mills to bring in $600 million to make up the great bulk of Cuba's national income. Without the 21 closed mills, the goal cannot be met. Electrical workers were on a slowdown strike against the U.S.-owned Cuban Electric Co. They demanded higher pay, reinstatement of every employee fired since 1952 and the removal of Company President...
...father whose financial eminence is largely due to his skill at forgery. The Tiffanys hope to marry their daughter off to a French count, who. of course, turns out to be bogus; the Tiffanys' unprepossessing servant girl emerges as the daughter of Adam Trueman. a bewhiskered. cane-thumping farmer of great wealth and rectitude...
Died. Harvey Ellsworth Newbranch, 83, apple-cheeked, cane-bearing, retired (since 1949) editor in chief of the Omaha World-Herald, who joined the paper as a cub in 1898, rose to become one of the nation's topflight editorial writers, won a 1920 Pulitzer Prize for his florid, horror-struck brief against race rioters, "Law and the Jungle"; of a heart attack; in Omaha...