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Upcountry in the Kiambu reserve, scene of last month's village massacre, a Mau Mau gang, brandishing keen-edged pangas, set fire to native huts. But instead of panic-stricken people rushing out to be cut to bits by the attackers' arms, an alerted Home Guard opened fire, killed 21 Mau Mau. In the same area, a platoon of 20 Negro soldiers of the King's African Rifles, led by a white officer, saw a Kikuyu woman furtively carrying sacks of food into the forest. Following the woman, the soldiers engaged a gang...
...student affairs. He believes the House should have a congenial, subtly educational flavor so that students can freely carry out their ideas. According to him the House Committee can take care of most of the problems that crop up short of disciplinary action. In Committee meetings Little has a keen interest, but a quiet voice. "I just suggest the compromises," he says. Perhaps the most well-received of the Little compromises came when two factions of the House Committee were battling out the problem of whether to have women dinner guests on Wednesday or Friday evenings in addition to Saturday...
...years before-and purposely patterned after ancient Armenian folk songs-Come On-a went nowhere until Clooney's recording. Then it leaped from the ranks of the mere hits (any disk that sells 200,000 copies) into the enchanted circle of million-copy smashes. The song itself has keen likened by at least one fan magazine writer to the sounds a drunken Turk might make shouting down a well. The fact is that Clooney did as much for the song as the song...
Implementing these ideas, and keeping a keen eye on Ahf's original purposes, the men behind this course can make it more effective as a guide to scholastic success in College...
Like his father, however, he handles words well and has produced a magnificent if frightening volume. Through his keen senses, the armchair adventurer is plunged into a world that out-wonders Wonderland. To many his paradise may seem to be somewhat south of Dante's ninth level of hell and his philosophy may grate. But they will be amazed and relieved to go back to the headlines and petty disturbances of man, to wait in the quiet bliss bombs and bars until A.C.D. returns to tell of his next foray. If he bothers to return...