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...Independence brought about a reunion of Kenyatta's far-flung families. His English third wife, Edna May, and her 20-year-old son Peter, a Cambridge undergraduate, flew to Nairobi and were met by Kenyatta's fourth wife, Ngina, an African, and his daughters Margaret, 34, and Jane, 14, by his first wife Grace, also an African. His second wife, whose name Kenyatta refuses to divulge, is said to have died about twelve years...
...more blatant abuses. If the allegations of his accusers are true, the former Secretary to the Senate Democatic Majority owned, manipulated, or assisted simultaneously two vending-machine corporations, a Milwaukee insurance company, a luxury hotel in Maryland, a Haitian meat-packing firm, and an exclusive Washington club. Yet the far-flung nature of Mr. Baker's interests was not brought to light until the owner of one of the vending machine firms sued him for, apparently, backing out on a promise to persuade a government contrator to purchase certain vending machines...
...beef up Pepsi's distribution and marketing system (520 U.S. outlets v. 1,100 for Coke), Kendall needs to broaden his one-product company, is searching around for likely food-line mergers. Austin, on the other hand, can look out from his executive suite in Atlanta on a far-flung organization that has already taken that step; in addition to Coke, he has a promising line of frozen and canned juices, coffee and tea that accounts for 20% of Coke's sales...
Within minutes after President Kennedy announced the U.S. wheat sale to Russia and its satellites, telex machines started clattering in a 63-room French provincial mansion in the woodland outside Minneapolis. From this unlikely headquarters, messages went out to the far-flung arms of the biggest U.S. grain dealer: Cargill, Inc. Though it is a secretive, inbred and inconspicuous company, Cargill (pronounced with a hard g, as in fish-gill) is a $1.5 billion-a-year giant with more than enough wheat capacity to handle the entire sale of 150 million bushels to Russia. Despite its size and predominance...
...story appears this week in Modern Living, and the moral, if any, is that earthbound, Manhattan-bound TIME staffers can fling themselves as ardently into a story as any of our far-flung correspondents...