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...reference to the conspicuous consumption of Mrs. Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, wife of Ghana's ex-Minister of Industries, whose purchase of a gold bed while on a shopping trip to London cost her husband...
While sojourning in London, the wife of Ghana's Minister of Industries Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, 46, whimsically picked up an $8,400 bed. Back in Accra, the indignant minister telephoned his wife to return it at once. So conspicuous a kip, insisted Crowbar (who has risen from a pre-independence job as a $22-a-month debt collector to ownership of five mansions), just was "not socialism." He explained that his spouse has been abroad for months, and perhaps "does not know all the dynamic and progressive changes that have taken place in Ghana since." Distinctly unprogressive, Mrs. Edusei...
...crawl inside and pull the Zipper. But how, asked Bell, could the bag's occupant breathe? That, said the promoter, was something he had not yet worked out. Similarly, a Boston entrepreneur advertised a handy "shelter" for only $4.50; it turned out to be a crowbar, for use in opening manhole covers...
...real train and a real timber trestle "420 ft. long and 200 ft. high." Yet, disappointingly, the actual sounds of collapse were so implausible that the moviemakers had to resort to studio fabrication, recording the noise of a bent spike being pulled out of a thick board with a crowbar and replaying the sound in an echo chamber at one-third its normal speed. Like the movie itself, it was simple, effective and cheap...
Nkrumah himself was silent as his critics raged, but his controlled press was quick to hit back at those "who take the liberty of their membership in our august National Assembly to hit below the belt." Crowbar had better stop overspending in his ministry or "get out," rumbled the Evening News darkly. As for Quaidoo, added the Ghanaian Times, "he is a Tshombe-faced nincompoop who stands out as one of the biggest buffoons who ever walked the floor of free Ghana's Parliament." Clearly, both had fallen from grace with Osagyefo. The next question was where else they...