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Despite Kenyatta's intransigence, the British still cling to the hope that Kenya's second biggest African party, the K.A.D.U., may yet be persuaded to participate in the new Kenya government. But the realistic prospect is that no African faction will dare oppose Kenyatta's wishes for long. The Africans who visited him last week insist that, contrary to earlier reports, Jomo is neither ill, feeble nor alcoholic. Recently, he produced a child by his young third wife, who shares his Lodwar cabin. Said Tom Mboya: "I can assure people who consider that his age has impaired...
...present time the political situation is not developing strength," Fairbank stated. "We can cling to our hopes and support strong-man rule or possibly we can find some new way of working with the people" toward more stable government...
...Riviera folk have been kicked around by everybody. They are very suspicious of anybody who wants to change their customs. Yet, despite the fact that they cling to their old customs, we think that if we. as a member of the Peace Corps, could have just one summer with them on the Riviera, we could teach them the American way, and by living with them and showing them how we do things back home, they would be a happier and more contented people...
Copper-rich Northern Rhodesia supplies most of the federation's revenues. Racially, it is the pivotal state, lying between Nyasaland, which is almost all black and slated for black rule, and Southern Rhodesia, whose 215,000 white settlers intend to cling to power indefinitely. Macleod last week sprang a proposed new constitution on Northern Rhodesia's 73,000 whites and 2,280,000 blacks. As ingenious as it was complex, it was designed to give Africans an equal voice with the whites in government...
Today, almost the only thing common to all apartments is the low, beamed ceiling and a splendid view onto a few fishing boats owned by Italians who still cling to their traditional slips. Otherwise, variations in the original shapes of the rooms and later additions of partitions have made each flat unique. According to one resident conversant in the latest psychological theories, "Each apartment provides an excellent physical area in which to express one's self." This situation seems especially fortunate in view of the same person's opinion that "everybody down here is sort of a character...