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...young boy, Jean-Pierre Leaud manages to steal the show from his older and more experienced fellow actors. His transformation from a mischievous, carefree imp to a lonely but childishly appealing outcast is convincingly portrayed, and his portrait of the sensitively curious, misguided child is remarkably well sustained. The other performances, especially those of Claire Maurier and Albert Remy as the blundering parents, are appropriately less delicate and in equally perfect taste...
...Kwame Nkrumah, Tom Mboya happened to be built up as an African nationalist leader," explained Labor Official John Tettegah. "Now Mboya has become so conceited he thinks he is God and the world is his." Added N. A. Welbeck, Nkrumah's Minister with Special Duties: "Mboya is an imp not fit to lick Nkrumah's boots . . . Nkrumah is a consuming fire. Anybody who tries to destroy him will be destroyed first." Everyone knows, concluded Party Secretary Adamafio, that "Nkrumah is a superman, master and god on his own scene. America had its Lincoln, Russia its Lenin, Britain...
...Imp. Today oceanography is working to perfect its tools. There are intelligent buoys, which can be anchored at sea, and queried by radio for oceanographic and meteorological data. Other buoys sink to the bottom, where they can record currents, take pictures of their surroundings. They will be brought to the surface months later by a small charge of TNT exploded near by, which triggers their ballast-release mechanism...
...Philip read plentifully about the personalities and places they will visit. The baggage was mostly packed and at sea aboard the royal yacht Britannia, and all that was left was to kiss the children goodbye. As part of a last weekend at home, Elizabeth rode out on her horse Imp to salute the Household Guards in the ancient ceremony of Trooping the Color...
...ancestors of apes and dropped out of the trees only a few million years ago. The common ancestor, if there was one, now appears to have lived far earlier. This might be a kind of primate with mixed monkey and ape traits, or even an ancestor of the imp-eyed little Asian tarsier, which was a groundling before it took to the trees; anatomically, man has much in common with such animals. If Hurzeler's 4-ft. creature is what he says it is, the earliest manlike creature yet discovered, man may be many times older than he thinks...