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...Mboya, 28, most powerful political personality of Kenya, land of the gory Mau Mau uprisings. The Mau Mau were Kikuyus; Mboya is a Luo, the second largest tribe. Son of a sisal plantation worker, round-faced young Mboya learned most of his ABCs by writing in the sand for lack of books and slates. In 1953, the year he got fired as a sanitary inspector in Nairobi, he was elected general secretary of the powerful Kenya Federation of Labor. Elected to Kenya's Legislative Council, he now boycotts its sessions in protest against the kind of equality in which...
Peru last week suffered the standard South American ailments: a big deficit, a puff of inflation. Unions pressed for higher wages, and an executive of one of Peru's largest industries growled: "In six months we'll have some army officers walk into the presidential palace and take over...
...Italians, mostly women, pay an estimated $385,000 for the latest copies of Dream, Eternal Passion, Sun in My Eyes, My Woman, Grand Hotel and dozens of other fumetti publications. Fumetti magazines have also proved popular in other Latin countries: the fumetti-like Nous Deux (We Two) has the largest weekly circulation (upwards of 1,700,000) in France...
...most dynamic spokesman and "lobbyist" for Washington the nation's troubled railroads is James Miller Symes, 61, president of the Pennsylvania Railroad, the nation's largest (1958 revenue $844,200,000). Husky (5 ft. 8 in., 180 lbs.), highballing Jim Symes was the driving force behind the Smathers act, which gave the railroads some Government help and a measure of relief from overregulation. But he thinks the railroads can do much more to help themselves - by merging. Last week Jim Symes proclaimed that he still has an urge to merge, deplored the New York Central's scrapping...
...distinction" and ''the thinking man," U.S. TViewers last week could add a brand-new advertising character: "the Massey-Ferguson kind of a man." As the first farm-equipment manufacturer to launch a network TV campaign, Toronto's Massey-Ferguson Ltd.. the world's largest maker of tractors and self-propelled combines, described their man as "a special kind of man; he's a doer, not a talker. He's a get-up-early, keep-'em-rolling kind...