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Tshombe didn't have to worry about winning over most of Leopold-ville's politicians. He may have left as a long-standing enemy of the country, but he came back as the most sought-after man in Congolese politics. His main political difficulty has been dealing with the National Liberation Committee. The Committee has not come to terms with him, and Committee members have denounced Lubaya widely as a traitor...
...reality, so wide a breadth of knowledge, such stark symbolism is indeed beyond the reach of any contemporary writer. Today the CRIMSON literati have pooled their talents to analyze the T. Th. (S.) sections of the master-work and help all you striving Daedaluses reach the equanimity of Leopold Bloom...
...Died. Leopold Mannes, 64, co-inventor of Kodachrome film, a concert pianist who, with Fellow Musician Leopold Godowsky, spent his free hours trying to develop a high-quality, easy-to-use color film, after 20 years of experimenting came up with the first three-color transparency in 1935, an invention they sold to Eastman Kodak, thereby ushering in photography's golden era; of a stroke; in Martha's Vineyard, Mass...
...predawn gloom at Leopold ville's Ndjili Airport, the DC-8 jetliner whined to a halt on the hardstand. Almost coyly, it poked its nose between a pair of aircraft chartered to ferry the last United Nations soldiers away from the Congo. From the hatch of the first-class compartment stepped a tall, plump man in a severe black suit, grinning like an African Fernandel. Burly, rifle-swinging Congolese cops and nervous Surete plainclothesmen hustled him into a black Chevy Impala with government plates, and off he sped into the flower-and sewage-scented dark. Thus last week with...
...Boylston Prizes for public speaking were awarded last night after 10 finalists in the competition recited selections ranging from Clearence Darrow's defense of Loeb and Leopold, to Robert Brownings's "The Pied Piper of Hamlin...