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Through it all, Kenyatta remained something of an enigma. He changed his reputation at least as often as he altered his name?from Kamau wa Ngengi to Johnstone Kamau, then Johnstone Kenyatta and finally Jomo Kenyatta?as he grew from a herdboy to a mission-school pupil, from a Nairobi water-meter reader to a political activist. His career was shaped by the crucial facts of Kenya life: the lust for land by his Kikuyu tribesmen, and the character of the settler community that was determined to fight to preserve Kenya as a white man's country...
...meantime, the slaughter only grew worse. Whites turned their farmhouses into fortresses; blacks who cooperated with the settlers lived in terror of Mau Mau revenge. In the end, only 32 white civilians and 167 members of the security forces were killed by the Mau Mau during the seven-year emergency. But 11,503 guerrillas lost their lives, as did 1,819 Africans who remained loyal to the colonial government...
...combative Bud Maytag, 52, a grandson of the Maytag appliance company's founder. The two strong leaders might have trouble working together. But that may not turn into a problem, for Maytag seems ready to get out of the airline business and return to Colorado Springs, where he grew up. National's ups and downs over the years, its labor problems (six strikes since 1964) and the trend toward deregulation and merger all have taken their toll of Maytag's enthusiasm. As he told a friend: "It's no fun running an airline any more." If he does leave National...
LATE LAST APRIL, during a week when thousands of students marched and chanted, imploring the Harvard Corporation to end its investments in companies that do business with South Africa, The Crimson faced a familiar ethical dilemma. As the chants grew louder, as University officials appeared ever more supercilious by their silence, as tempers neared a flashpoint, executives of the paper fought against pressures from both sides. Leaders of the demonstration recalling the paper's frequent editorial endorsement of their position, demanded more: cover us more favorably, they said, put us in an even better light, work more closely with...
...show-biz approach was inevitable as the paperback business grew: some of the largest paperback houses belong to conglomerates with movie and television interests. In addition, inflation has pushed the cost of paperbacks higher than the average for most commodities, demanding more aggressive salesmanship. In the past six years the cover price of a rack-size book has jumped 77%, from an average of 930 to $1.65. The consumer price index for the same period rose 44.8%. Where will it end? Inflation is not likely to vanish and neither is the desire of publishers to secure bigger blockbusters. This...