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Tanganyika (pop. 9,560,000), where Stanley met Livingstone and Hemingway found Kilimanjaro, became a republic this week. For five days, the prancing crowds in Dar es Salaam celebrated the event, shrilling their approval of the fresh daubed letters "JT" (for Jamhuri Tanganyika, Republic of Tanganyika) on banners hung throughout the city. The rest of the world could also celebrate, for leader of the proud new republic would be Julius Nyerere, 40, a sensible, spindly onetime schoolteacher, who listens to the raucous cries of "Uhuru" (freedom) from the fiery nationalists of Africa, then puts his personal addendum on the slogan...
...Peace Corps in Tanganyika (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A repeat of last season's look at the progress of one Peace Corps operation from its training in Texas to its camp at the base of Mount Kilimanjaro. Color...
...filmdom's Little Caesar Edward G. Robinson, 68,stricken by a heart attack on location for Sammy Going South, 6,000 ft. high in the foothills of Tanganyika's Mount Kilimanjaro. Grizzly with chin whiskers sprouted for his role as a diamond smuggler with a heart of gold. Robinson roared from his Nairobi hospital bed: "I've never held up a production in my life. I'll be back on the set tomorrow." Doctors ordered three weeks' rest...
Saturday Night at the Movies (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Ava Gardner in Ernest Hemingway's The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Color...
Planting the Colors. All over the jubilant country, fireworks displays lit the skies. In the snows at the top of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest (19,340 ft.) peak, a lieutenant of the new Tanganyikan Rifles planted the colors of the new nation and lit a symbolic torch of unity, fulfilling a longtime wish of Julius Nyerere. "We would like to light a candle and put it on top of Mount Kilimanjaro," he once said. "It would shine beyond our borders, giving hope where there was despair, love where there was hate, and dignity where before there was only...