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...White Highlands, where the self-styled heroes aim to get 16-acre farms on the Mau Mau bill of rights. According to rank, hundreds of other comrades were billeted in tents, schools and stately homes vacated by departing settlers. Trouble was, nearly everyone claimed to have been a "field marshal." After talking to scores of happy warriors, newsmen reported that they had found only one admitted enlisted man. He gave his rank as Regimental Sergeant Major, Atomic...
Trick Achieved. Though Marshal Sarit ruled Thailand as an absolute dictutor, he had a strong sense of responsibility toward country and people. "Anybody can stage a revolution," he said after seizing power in a bloodless coup in 1957. "The trick, once the revolution has been staged, is winning public approval." On doctor's orders, he went on the wagon, began housecleaning Thailand from top to bottom. He banned opium smoking, and when a rash of fires broke out in Bangkok's business district one winter, he ordered four Chinese merchants shot-a brutal but effective reminder that...
...Ceremony. Although Kenya's vicious Mau Mau long ago stopped fighting, many were still hiding out in the green-black forests on the slopes of Mount Kenya. All week they drifted back-"Field Marshal" Mwariama and 50 assorted "generals." The foreign representatives arriving along with the Mau Mau ranged from Red China's Foreign Minister Chen Yi to India's Indira Gandhi and U.S. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall. Also from the U.S., as guests and entertainers, came Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba.* There were balls, garden parties, receptions, the laying of cornerstones, and the presentation of gifts...
Founded as a nationalized company in 1955 from the remnants of a rundown private airline, PIA ran up heavy financial losses and a horrendous safety record until Field Marshal Ayub Khan, after coming to power in 1958, installed a Pakistan Air Force commodore as PIA's boss. Commodore Nur Khan (no kin) fired seven senior captains, enforced strict discipline and turned PIA into one of the few nationalized airlines that make a profit. Khan gets no government subsidy and brooks no government meddling, runs PIA with a maximum of free enterprise...
Eugene Kinasewich of Lowell House and Edmonton, Alta, was yesterday elected first class marshal for the Class of '64's commencement in June. Second marshal is L. Scott Harshbarger of Eliot House and State College, Pa.; third is Louis G. Williams of Eliot House and Gladwyne, Pa., and fourth marshal is John Thorndike of Eliot House and Westport, Conn...