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...Kenya's Mau Mau movement for sheer grisliness. In seven years of terror beginning in the autumn of 1952, 95 Europeans, 29 Asians and 12,423 Africans were slain by methods ranging from merciful garroting to having their heads bashed in and their brains removed, dried and ritually eaten. Last week the British finally got around to releasing the first complete and authoritative account of the Mau Mau disaster-an almost clinically detached, 322-page report by Career Colonial Administrator Frank D. Corfield, 58, onetime Governor of Khartoum...
...great cathedral. Built by native Anglican converts a century ago, it was long the center of Anglican missionary work in Nyasaland and a showpiece of transplanted Christianity. Today, huge cracks threaten to bring down the remnants of its walls, and its stained-glass windows hang crazily from their worm-eaten wooden frames...
...wonder if Mrs. "Pepperidge" Rudkin [March 21] has ever eaten a real, long, fresh, crunchy French loaf. Has she ever tasted the hard, dark bread from the Canton Valais in Switzerland? If she had, she would not have the gall to talk about showing Europe "how to make good bread...
When the beset Prado defied Publisher Beltrán to do any better himself, the critic decided that he belonged onstage: "Like missionaries who go among the savages and must be prepared to face being eaten, we independent newspapermen and honest politicians should be prepared for the worst." Peru's economy was in such sorry shape that the sol had dropped from 19 to the dollar to 31.5. The simple act of making Beltrán Premier checked the decline. Then Beltrán stopped the currency printing presses that La Prensa had long cartooned as a loathsome, hairy...
...fish, made no attempt to trap sea birds, failed to maintain a system of regular watches or to develop a distress signal to attract passing ships (three passed on the horizon without seeing them). Even worse, they had apparently made no attempt to ration their food and had eaten it all in the first 16 days. But the ultimate test of survival technique is to survive, and on that basis, the Russians made a perfect score. By the time they were finally spotted by a plane from the Kearsarge, the four young men had been reduced to boiling their bootstraps...