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...morose forests of the Aberdare Range, Mau Mau terrorists last week hacked an elderly Briton to pieces as he sat in his evening tub. A quick chop of the pangas and all his fingers were gone. In the port of Mombasa, supposedly awed by the guns of a British cruiser, a British marine was stabbed...
...hangs at the left of the dining hall entrance. With his gift of $150,000 the "experiment in democracy," as he called it, went up in a year. Completed in 1902, the building was garnished with momentous of the recent Spanish war, including a "rapid-firing" cannon from the cruiser Harvard. This now stands in the basement, aimed threateningly at the entrance to the office of Athletic Director Thomas D. Bolles...
...landed at Nairobi, capital of Kenya Colony, one night last week, and set down the ist Battalion (800 men) of Britain's Lancashire Fusiliers. From adjoining Tanganyika and Uganda hurried a battalion and two companies of the King's African Rifles. H.M.S. Kenya, an 8,000-ton cruiser, put a detachment of marines ashore at Mombasa, Kenya's only modern harbor...
...first clash with the "enemy" (ten submarines and one cruiser) brought on an intra-fleet rhubarb. A Russian sub (H.M.S. Taciturn) got through the destroyer screen and promptly claimed hits on four carriers, but the umpires (on the surface ships) ruled her sunk. Such differences will be resolved when the two-week exercise is finished and the commanders gather in Oslo for a review. Meanwhile, "sunken" carriers and subs fight...
...storage tanks, huge gate valves, heavy flow lines and brightly lit cracking plants. There was a symbol of oil in war-two G.I.s tensely guarding a fuel dump on Sai-pan-and a salute to oil in peace-a gay sailfishing party riding the Gulf Stream in a power cruiser...