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Nkrumah's years of misrule now fully exposed by Ghana's well-entrenched new military government, many Guinean officials consider his presence a distinct liability. As a result, he has been elbowed out of the political limelight; he is now kept under virtual house arrest in his high-walled villa. Nearly a dozen of his bodyguards have deserted and crossed the border to Sierra Leone to start a new life. His Egyptian wife Fathia, whom he shelved years ago for more comely playmates, has taken refuge in Cairo, refuses to rejoin him or even to allow his three...
...President Kennedy's former speechwriter, who flew in from the East to campaign for Phil and immediately got into a shouting match with the Omaha World-Herald over some disparaging remarks that Ted had made about progress in his home state in 1961. In the end, Phil lost the limelight to a G.O.P. novice, Norbert ("Nobby") Tiemann, 42, himself a Kennedy-handsome, 6-ft. 3-in. banker from Wasau (pop. 724). An unknown nine months ago, Tiemann stumped the state shaking every outstretched hand, put across his German name with the slogan: "Tiemann. . . Nebraska's Way to Spell Governor...
...This is not an American show," the President told the National Security Council on the eve of his departure. In Manila he went out of his way to avoid the limelight-even though he was clearly the main attraction for the mobs. "We are not even No. 2," he kept reminding aides during the seven-nation meeting on Viet Nam. "We are No. 7." In public appearances, he squeezed no arms, slapped no backs. During a picture-taking session before the Philippine House of Representatives, he carefully stood a couple of steps below his Asian colleagues...
ELUES ETUDE (Limelight). Oscar Peterson is still a topflight jazz pianist-a suave swinger with impeccable technique-crisp, fast and featherlight. But half these tracks catch him with a new drummer and bassist, and at times the trio seems merely to be making polite conversation. Oscar softly grunts and moans, rather surprising accompaniments for urbane offerings like Let's Fall in Love and The Shadow of Your Smile...
Hiring Negroes on the police force was the recurrent demand of civil rights groups since 1955. The lily-white police force was cited again and again as the symbol of the segregated life of Birmingham. The Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who stepped into the national limelight when he asked Dr. Martin Luther King to lead massive demonstrations in 1963, became a well-known local leader eight years earlier when he began carrying petitions to Police Commissioner Eugene "Bull" Connor asking that the force be integrated...