Word: kinda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While the Congo was a Belgian colony, 35-year-old Robert Kinda worked hard washing clothes in a Leopoldville laundry. He also did a few personal favors for one of the customers, Thomas Kanza, 27, the Belgian-educated son of a local politico...
Several weeks ago young Kanza was appointed to head the Congolese delegation to the U.N.; he asked hard-working Robert Kinda to come along as a member of the delegation. Kinda's duties: to act as Kanza's secretary and to do his laundry...
...Kinda was happy enough as a drip-dry diplomat until he suddenly encountered a new group of Congolese in the U.N. corridors. He was aghast when told that "they alone" represented the government of Kinda's hero, President Kasavubu, while his master Thomas Kanza was supporting wild-eyed Premier Patrice Lumumba. Next, the dazed Kinda learned that "neither Kasavubu nor Lumumba was anything any more, and a colonel I didn't know was in command of the Congo...
When Irene was 22, Mike Todd hired her for Star and Garter, fired her before the show was six weeks old. After that, says Irene, "I kinda had a nervous breakdown for five years...