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...famous but hard to pronounce does not show up at New York's Idlewild Airport in a neat black suit. In the past two years the list has included Guinea's Sékou Touré, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouet-Boigny, Nigeria's Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kenya's Tom Mboya, Nyasaland's Kanyama Chiume, Southern Rhodesia's Joshua Nkomo, and most recently Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere...
...Host was removed from the altar of the cathedral before Khrushchev was shown through-and a purification service was held after he had left. The church even succeeded in spiking one of the anticipated triumphs of the Agitprop men-Nikita's scheduled meeting with Canon Félix Kir, the 84-year-old priest who doubles as mayor of Dijon and is an Independent Deputy in France's National Assembly...
...with Ghana and join up. To the east, he has used the sprawling Ewe tribe as a basis for suggesting that parts of Togoland, which becomes independent in April, be taken over as Ghana's "seventh province." To the west, where Ivory Coast's Premier Félix Houphouet-Boigny is having trouble with dissident Sanwi tribesmen, Nkrumah said he is "studying the possibilities of regrouping" the Sanwi people on that frontier...
...babbled incoherently about some juju rites in which they had been branded on the chest with five cuts that were supposed to make them invulnerable to bullets. But the song they had sung was well known-"General Moumié Gets Five Million Soldiers." The "general" referred to: Félix-Roland Moumié, 34, who lives in exile in Nkrumah's Ghana...
Serve Yourself. In France there are close to 3,000 new self-service grocery stores doing so much business that retailers speak of a "commercial revolution." Many of the stores are independently owned and operated, but the biggest push comes from the chains. France's big Félix Potin chain has already turned half of its 96 stores into self-service markets, plans to convert all its stores to self-service by 1961, reports that sales automatically double when customers realize that they can shop faster, more easily and more cheaply at self-service. Two years ago, Paris...