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...loose federal system for the Congo's government, even talks of setting up his region as a separate province. His parents sent him off to train for the priesthood at a mission school, but after five years of studying and teaching, he left to work as a clerk with a timber firm, then took a job with the colonial civil service. Later he took over leadership of the budding Abako Party formed in the Leopoldville area. Early in 1959, one of his fiery speeches set off bloody riots in Leopoldville. The riots frightened the Belgians into handing over independence...
...rising above tribal loyalties. The son of a Batetela tribesman, he grew up in equatorial Stanleyville, where he attended first a Catholic, then a Protestant mission school, finally completing his education at the Belgians' training school for postal employees. A year after Lumumba took his first job as clerk in the Stanleyville post office, he was in jail, convicted of embezzling $2,520 of government money. Freed in 1957, he prospered as the persuasive salesman for a brewery, then began spreading his talents into the political field...
Died. Robert Peter Boylan, 68, stock broker, who started as a grain broker's clerk after quitting school at 14, served as president of the Chicago Board of Trade in 1935-36, board chairman of the New York Stock Exchange from 1947 to 1951; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
...Tribal elders do not like the idea of upstart youngsters challenging their authority in the tribe's affairs. Warrior clans, like the Lulua, whose hegemony was built with spears and brawn, are outraged to find themselves outvoted by the humble Baluba, who have adopted such unmanly professions as clerk or typist. Many tribes had less interest in establishing a new nation than in protecting their own traditional home areas from outside interference...
...Battle of the Sexes. Versatile Actor Peter Sellers as James Thurber's dull little clerk who finds unsuspected strength in his filing-cabinet mind when he battles a female efficiency expert...