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After repeated assurances that his mark on the ballot would neither give his enemies a hold over him by witchcraft nor make his wives sterile, the clan leader thrust his spear shaft into the ground, strode into the mud-and-wattle hut and voted. Among the fertile coffee plantations on the lower slopes of Mount Kilimanjaro, lounge-suited leaders of the progressive Chagga tribe queued up at polling stations alongside white planters in khaki shorts and Asian shopkeepers in dhotis...
...Actor Todd is well-known as the movie Robin Hood, romping boyishly about Sherwood Forest, bunging arrows at the Sheriff of Nottingham and dimpling at sight of Maid Marian. Now, all of a sudden, it turns out that he is shacked up with a Marseille whore in a thatched hut in Uganda...
Last week Billie was home building a new chickee (hut) with a bathroom on Upjohn's money, and Upjohn was analyzing the tea's ingredients. It will be months before Upjohn feels able to announce its findings, at least two years before a new product could reach drugstores. Billie's tea, notes one researcher, contains "gunk" that needs thorough investigation. But Upjohn considers the" project highly worthwhile. Very useful drugs have been found before in unorthodox fashion, e.g., reserpine, the ancient tranquilizer made from India's Rauwolfia plant, which became an antihypertensive drug. A favorable outcome...
Died. Walter Schumann, 44, who described himself as a "commercial musician," composer, director of The Voices of Walter Schumann, a 20-member choral group; of a heart ailment; at University Hospital, Minneapolis. Walter Schumann's credits were various and occasionally bizarre. In 1941 he published The Hut-Sut Song (lyrics: "Hut-Sut Rawlson on the rillerah and a brawla brawla sooit . . ."), also wrote the famed dum-da-dum-dum theme of radio-TV's Dragnet series...
...operated by two men, one of whom pours in the soil-cement mixture while the other pumps the long handle to press the brick into shape at a pressure of about 10,000 lbs. per sq. in. In two days it can turn out enough brick to build a hut-sized house, is light enough (140 lbs.) to be packed by mule to backwoods villages, inexpensive enough to serve even the most. depressed areas. The machine costs about $50 to produce, makes rock-hard bricks for less than a penny apiece...