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...sons of a polygamist chief, Nyerere attended Uganda's Makarere College, where he was baptized a Roman Catholic. Later he took a master's in history and economics from Edinburgh University, returned to the bush to teach in a mission school. By his fiery oratory, he soon welded Tanganyika's 113 politically inarticulate tribes into the monolithic Tanganyika African National Union party. Unlike the Mau Mau in adjoining Kenya, Nyerere has modified his racist stand, now insists: "The struggle against colonialism must not be confused with racialism. Both the color of a man's skin...
...vertigo but leaves the whole job of balancing to the other ear and the eyes. It also deafens the ear involved. Another supposed cure has been the injection of alcohol into the nerves leading from the ear to the brain, but this sometimes causes facial paralysis. Now, in Edinburgh, the electrical engineering firm of Bruce Peebles & Co., Ltd. is perfecting an ultrasonic gun that doctors hope will cure crippling cases of Ménière's disease with less disastrous aftereffects...
...Race. On its modest success, Roy Thomson has pyramided his empire. He drives hard bargains, e.g., he bought the Edinburgh Scotsman for $3,000,000, or only $600,000 more than the construction cost of its 13-story plant. He pays ad salesmen more than reporters, likes to say "there's nothing in this business that a few thousand dollars worth of advertising won't cure." But along the pathway to profit, Thomson picked up some of the instincts of a newspaperman. Selling the Empire News and getting rid of the Sunday Graphic makes good business sense...
...this fall. He is also scheduled to conduct the Berlin Philharmonic in six concerts in its home city and then take it on tour to London for a Beethoven cycle. December calls for a production of Fidelia at La Scala. And since he is now free of Salz burg, Edinburgh may seek his services for its music festival next year. Finally, there are reports that Von Karajan has privately expressed his ambition to conduct the opening of the new Metropolitan Opera House in New York...
...Once a Scot goes south of the border, he is lost to us," says Lieut. Colonel Robert Gayre, chief of Clan Gayre. "Macmillan only remembers he is a Scot when he goes to the U.S., where Scots are popular. In England he wears his old Etonian tie." Adds Edinburgh Royal High School's Rector David Imrie with a mixture of pride and regret: "Our best commodity for export has always been our brains...