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There, in the heart of the Kikuyu country, is the African Inland Mission, nucleus of a vast parish supervised by U.S.-born Baptist Devitt. For 25 years 51-year-old William Devitt and his wife Edith have labored among the Kikuyu, traveling 25,000 miles each year through the Rift Valley to direct the mission's 80 schools for Kikuyu children. The natives affectionately call him "Bwana Jambo" (Mister Hello) because of his friendly greetings. When the Mau Mau revolt began in 1952, Devitt organized Kikuyu of his area to protect themselves. For his pains...
...from crewmen on cargo vessels plying Siberia's 2,800-mile-long Yenisei River: the Kremlin was downgrading late Dictator Stalin and rectifying the abuses of his regime. Counting themselves noteworthy victims of Stalinist repression, the prisoners (working on a project to divert the Yenisei into a vast inland sea for irrigating arid Kazakstan) saw a new day dawning...
...Rorschach inkblot tests may reveal hidden hostilities which would make a career as a sales man unprofitable, or dependency yearnings which would bar promotion as a foreman or executive. A.firm of consultants is doing big business providing psychologists to industry. Its biggest client: Chicago's case-hardened Inland Steel Co., which employs 15 psychologists part-time to help in picking new employees and to improve old hands for promotion...
...localness of the Adelie wind suggested that it might be caused by some peculiar topographical feature in inland Antarctica, but no one was sure until U.S. Navy airplanes recently explored the region between the South Pole and Wilkes Land. According to Dr. Paul A. Siple, just returned from Antarctica, the flying explorers found a great sloping trough 200 to 300 miles wide between a high mountain range west of the Ross Ice Shelf and a dome of ice. The trough leads south from the coast, and its high inland end may reach the South Pole (see map). During the Antarctic...
...diamond-hard rock that blunts ordinary drills, is too low in iron content (about 33%) for conventional refining methods. Five years ago Cleveland-Cliffs Iron Co., with Ford Motor Co., set up pilot operations to mine and process* jasper by a new method. Last week Cleveland-Cliffs and Inland Steel Co. announced that they will build, near Marquette, Mich., the nation's first big jasper-mining and processing project. At peak production the Marquette plants will grind some 6,000,000 tons of jasper yearly, convert it into 3,000,000 tons of walnut-sized pellets that contain...