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...dazzling sunlight last week, 30,000 singing, dancing Africans gathered before Nairobi's Ministry of Works. A great roar went up as two solemn men emerged. One was Kenya's British Governor Malcolm MacDonald, resplendent in blue dress uniform. The other, wearing his customary leather jacket and beaded beanie, was burly Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the man who served seven years in jail as the convicted "manager" of the Mau Mau terrorists, and who only three years ago was denounced by the previous governor as "the leader to darkness and death...
Lifted Bible. As if to brush away the bitter past, MacDonald told the crowd that this was a "glad day in Kenya's history" and wished Kenyatta "every success in his task of leading Kenya forward to uhuru [freedom]." Kenyatta echoed the cry of uhuru, then, lifting a Bible high in his right hand, he took the oath of office as Prime Minister of self-governing Kenya...
Under the compromise constitution worked out last year in London, Britain was to retain control of defense, foreign affairs and internal security. But last week, presumably impressed by Kenyatta's moderate words, Britain's MacDonald disclosed that all three would be transferred to the new government, and complete independence may well be won by the first of the year. A high British official in Nairobi expressed guarded optimism: "It's much more promising than I expected...
...doubles, Sullivan and Walker had an easy time with Steve Hecht and Art MacDonald of Bowdoin, 6-2, 6-3, while Ripley and Walter outshot Brooks Gunnard and John Armstrong of Williams, 6-4, 8-6. Walker was in his fourth match of the day when he and Sullivan lost the doubles...
...have had the advantage of seeing what happened with stamps in the U.S. You have an initial competitive advantage; then your rivals have stamps and you lose the advantage. But you're stuck with the stamps." They haven't seen anything yet. The U.S.'s MacDonald Stamp Co. (Plaid Stamps) is exploring the British market, and giant Sperry & Hutchinson (Green Stamps) will launch an assault this summer. More immediately. Great Universal Stores' Sir Isaac Wolfson now owns five small stamp companies, and is expected to begin issuing stamps in his 2.600 retail outlets...