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...from their war canoes: "Come to us, come on shore and we will kill you all with our patoo-patoos!" While the Maoris did not brain any of Cook's men with their patoo-patoos (war clubs), Cook got rattled for a rare moment during a sudden Maori foray and ordered his men to open fire. Four of the tribesmen were killed, to the kindly Cook's lasting regret...
South African Correspondent Edward Hughes has been on a tour of troubled Kenya. His arrival in Nairobi coincided with a bold night foray into the capital by the native terrorists. This event, plus talks with officials who are planning a new reform government in Kenya, gave Hughes a few fast days' work and a sharp on-the-spot FOREIGN NEWS story, Mau Mau in the Cathedral...
...want to abolish tax exemption for foundations. Apparently, he wants sharper legal distinctions between "good" research, which would be tax exempt, and "bad" research, which would not be. Who is the judge between good and bad research? Obviously, Brazilla Carroll Reece thinks he is qualified for an empirical foray into government thought control...
...quoting 18th President, William Vacanarat Shadrach Tubman, 58, sailed from Manhattan for Haiti. From there he will proceed to Jamaica before heading home for West Africa. While in the U.S., he picked up nine honorary degrees, was a White House guest of President Eisenhower, highlighted his visit with a foray into Georgia, the homeland of his ancestors. In Atlanta, he was welcomed by the city's white mayor but failed to meet the man who had invited him to the state, Governor Herman Talmadge, a white supremacist, who found it expedient to be elsewhere dedicating a hospital...
Peace First. In a tight, blue suit, Mendès-France stepped briskly forward and nervously began to speak in curt, matter-of-fact tones. It was a daring foray, lucidly drafted and powerfully put. At the center of France's illness, said Mendès-France, is the hemorrhage of war in Indo-China. "Peace negotiated with our adversaries is required by the facts, and such a peace in turn [requires] the putting in order of our finances, revival of our economy and its expansion." But peace first...