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...violent events of the past days, speculated fearfully of violence still to come. But some also drank from jugs of the fiery illicit skokiaan until it was time to meet the evening trains from town. Drunk and angry, they grabbed stones, sticks and jagged pieces of metal to greet the few Africans who had disregarded Mourning Day and had gone in to work for the white man as usual. Forming a human chain across the tracks, one gang stopped a commuter train, dragged off the dozen Africans aboard and kicked and beat them. Others used roadbed ballast stones to smash...
...Tropics," Durrell erupted with a steamy item called The Black Book, still regarded as too obscene" to be published in Britain jr America. When his disciple's novel cached Miller, that dithyrambic daddy f all unshy pornographers effused: 'Down with Shakespeare! Down with Jhaucer! I greet Lawrence Durrell as the first Englishman." Even that cool sage, T. S. Eliot, bobbed approval. For Durrell he effect was tonic, "like suddenly hear-ng your own tone of voice...
France had braced itself for 14 days with Nikita Khrushchev. French Communists plastered the Paris Red Belt with pamphlets calling upon the faithful to give Nikita "an unforgettable welcome worthy of the traditions of the Parisian working class." France's Catholic bishops forbade clergymen to greet Khrushchev in their churches, urged laymen to recite the prayer Pro Pace (For Peace) in his presence. De Gaulle prepared himself by watching movies of Khrushchev's U.S. tour and huddling with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who had flown over to give the general a few British attitudes...
Approximately 600 highland farms are up for sale, many of them at cut prices by owners who talk bitterly of leaving the country. Half a dozen of the angriest settlers were at Nairobi Airport to greet homecoming Michael Blundell (see box), the moderate who accepted the new plan in London and bravely agreed to try to sell it to his fellow whites. One kept booming through a bull horn: "Shame, shame; shame on you! We have been betrayed by you, Mr. Blundell!" Others cried, "You rat!," and their leader, wiry little highlands farmer, Major Jim Hughes, 63, hurled a handful...
...land in West Palm Beach, a quick Cadillac ride from Boca Raton, where NBC brass happened to be attending a meeting with network affiliates. Quite naturally, when NBC Bosses Bob Sarnoff and Bob Kintner learned of Paar's arrival, they dropped everything and motored up the highway to greet him. The meeting was brief. Paar handed his visitors a letter apologizing for his walkout and promising to live up to his contract. Both Bobs read it and agreed that Jack could take his unscheduled vacation and come home on March 7. After just five days, the great Paar rebellion...