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KENYA'S white farmers, many of them impoverished aristocrats and others ex-Indian army colonels and majors, live in lonely gimcrack farmsteads dotted about the exclusive White Highlands.They drink expensive wines and dine off good china, yet few have telephones; farmhouses are miles apart and roads are dreadful. The whites employ half a million Negroes, and could not do without them. The whites insist they don't have a color bar, only a culture bar: a civilized man of any color is welcome. To most of Kenya's 100,000 Indians and 5,500,000 Negroes...
Stevenson had been invited to dine at Governor Dever's Cambridge apartment, but when Dever assistants saw the size of Stevenson's party (about 20 aides and 45 newspapermen), they hastily arranged to eat in the Hotel Commander. We were greeted there by Edward Martin, the hotel's publicity agent, who told us that Stevenson would eat in the Grand Ball Room, and throughout his meal, face a theatrical fronting of the White House. "A clever symbolic gesture," said Martin. Newsmen went to another dining hall for food, and state troopers to still another...
Annex upperclassmen living in three large dorms will have to "dine out" October 14 if plans for a freshman-sophomore supper voted on by 'Cliffe '55 yesterday are approved...
...class meeting in Agassiz, '55 accepted a proposal to entertain the freshmen for a supper "get together" in three dorms. Juniors and seniors in those dorms would dine in the halls not being used for the gathering...
...Leaf Mold . . ." But Teacher Peepers is at his timid zaniest when he goes to the classroom. In his special lecture, "Wake Up Your Sluggish Soil" (published originally in Petal & Stem), he concludes: "Spare the leaf mold, spoil the hepatica. Remember, your dirt is the restaurant where your flowers dine." To his students' questions he replies with thoughtful absurdities: "Yes, I think tonsils are useful to some people"; "No, I don't think we know just how fast a dinosaur...