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...radio speech afterward, Nkrumah vowed that the "evil men and neocolonialist agents amongst us shall be smoked out." Two days later a mob shouting "Ghana yes, Yankee no!" descended on the American embassy in Accra, hauled down the Stars and Stripes. A plucky Negro attache, Emerson Player, 31, of Denver, fought his way through the crowd, ran the flag up again. The government denied that it had anything to do with the incident and expressed "regret," but the assault was obviously officially engineered. The mob was led by a C.P.P. sound truck, and the local Tass correspondent arrived 25 minutes...
...English, is working on a study of Emily Dickinson. Kiely, who was an instructor in English composition last year, is now a lecturer in both General Education and English. Porte is an instructor in English. Especially interested in 19th century American literature, he is currently making a study of Emerson and Thoreau...
...photographic self-portrait still hangs in the office of the chairman of the Philosophy Department, but his work, soon to be discussed in a volume of "The Library of Living Philosophers," will continue to influence many more than the habitues of Emerson Hall...
...illustrious ancestor was a woman, Transcendentalist Margaret Fuller, the literary friend of Emerson and discoverer of Thoreau, whose strong-minded individualism presaged Bucky...
...needed was to split the last two singles. But Emerson routed Ralston, and the pressure was on McKinley. He lost the first set to Newcombe, 10-12, bounded back to win the second, 6-2. Again the Texan faltered; again he rallied-from a 0-3 deficit to a 9-7 victory. Then, leaning into his serve, McKinley blasted the young Aussie right off the court, 6-2-and the delirious Americans tenderly packed the Davis Cup for its long voyage...