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...mind. "We called the local police," said one, "to be sure there were enough cells for us." Next day a crowd of 1,000 appeared at Holy Loch waving placards. But the Proteus was on station, and Dunoon welcomed it with a civic reception and a dance. Said Town Clerk Duncan Anderson: "You'd have to search for a long time round here to winkle out anyone who doesn't want Americans to come...
...office party, or so it seems, and the mail clerk has had just enough vodka and cranberry juice to get up and pulsate with song. But the office is really Manhattan's subterranean Copacabana, one of the best-known bomb shelters in the world, and the mail clerk is little Bobby Darin, a $350,000-a-year corporation with ducktail by Lilly Dach...
...example, there is the "nation" of little, spade-bearded Albert Kalonji. A vain and cocky tribalist, Kalonji is an ex-railroad clerk who shortly after independence announced himself "king" of a rich diamond-mining area of South Kasai. which he called "Mining State." He is so superstitious that he cannot relax anywhere he goes until the local authorities produce an albino woman to kiss his hand, habitually carries a magic wand that is supposedly capable of killing any man with a wave...
Died. Patrice Hemery Lumumba, 35, goateed, bespectacled Batetela tribesman who was a mission school student, postal clerk, embezzler and beer salesman before he became a successful demagogue and the first Premier of the Congo; said to have been murdered by bush villagers after he "escaped"' from jail; in an as yet undisclosed place in Katanga province (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...conversion was started by the late President John S. Coleman with the help of his executive vice president, Eppert, who went to work at Burroughs 40 years ago as a shipping clerk. To broaden their product base, they bought two oldtime producers of bank forms and checks. The jump into computers came in 1956, when they took over ElectroData Corp., a leading manufacturer of high-speed electronic digital computers. A short time later, they moved into the fast-growing bank automation field (TIME, Dec. 5) with magnetic inks and automatic check-sorting equipment. While they aimed most of their...