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Unlike their U.S.-educated Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, few citizens of the new State of Ghana have been anywhere-even to school. They may not be aware of the hue and cry abroad at the way Ghana's government has been trampling on civil rights (TIME, Sept. 30), but Nkrumah is. Last week he tactfully gave ground. A lawyer down from London was allowed to challenge the expulsion of two Moslem opposition leaders. Contempt-of-court charges against a British newspaperman were dropped. Nkrumah pleaded for international sympathy: "Do not apply to us standards of conduct and efficiency which...
...from work at dinnertime last week was startled to find a different-looking woman in the house. To some this brought a sudden, tingling exhilaration, but a second look (perhaps at the feet) established that the wife was the same, only the hair different. It glinted with a new hue. The husband had been dragged into the host of U.S. men whose wives have become touched with tint...
...foreigners resisted-not even the German woman who was told off by police for wearing toreador pants and bare midriff, nor the American girl in a bikini chased from the Fountain of Trevi. But Communist newspapers raised a hue and cry about "clerical intolerance," and some of Italy's leading non-Communist papers joined in. Said Turin's liberal La Stampa: "The truth is, not many Italians are horrified by the sight of a girl in shorts." Added the largest newspaper in Italy, Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera, "They are proposing tourism in long pants...
...Anabaptist-turned-Anglican Rector Gates, the 17th century's Harvey Matusow, infiltrated Catholic circles, spun a yarn about a Papist plot aimed at the assassination of Charles II, was exposed as a liar after a hue and cry both in and out of Parliament, was whipped from Aldgate to Newgate to Tyburn for his pains-and to everyone's dismay, lived to lie another...
Watching the hue and cry that swept over West Germany after the incident, the Parisian newspaper Le Monde gloomily saw the accident as new proof of the power of command over Germans: "Command is still the absolute master. Once this command led to crime, today to suicide. It is strange to see how a people can rely so blindly on those who give it orders. Poor Germans...