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...Late jam sessions, midnight until unconscious," advertised one nightclub. In Freetown's magnificent harbor, gaily painted paddle boats carrying names like God Never Hurries staged a regatta. To the beat of tom-toms, 150 bare-breasted girls snaked past Sierra Leone's Prime Minister, Sir Milton Margai, and his guests of honor: Britain's Duke of Kent, Liberia's William Tubman, Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, U.S. Special Representative Thurgood Marshall. At midnight some 15,000 celebrators jammed Freetown's stadium, sang the hymn Lead, Kindly Light, watched as spotlights dimmed...
...retired physician, wily, wiry Sir Milton, 65, has his work cut out for him. For all Sierra Leone's wealth in diamonds, some 85% of the population is illiterate, and per capita income is a meager $56 a year. Eight of ten Sierra Leoneans eke out a living on the land, but the nation must still import foodstuffs. "We will need help to develop our natural resources," says Sir Milton, adding pointedly, "and we would like to look first to our old friends." Firmly pro-Western, Margai has already made Sierra Leone the twelfth member of the Commonwealth. Conspicuously...
...mother and seldom have five boys picked up so much character from a mother (and father) in private. They are independent and unselfconscious, too mature to expect Christmas more than once a year but too normal to settle for a single Halloween. Every Sunday evening they recite poems?from Milton to Hopkins?that they have learned during the week; on other nights they play chess and Monopoly with their father, and hold word contests with their mother. She has retired from "therapy games," and is planning a casual piece on how to lose quickly at checkers...
...lectures, open to the public, are sponsored by the History Department through gifts in memory of John Milton Potter '26 and Reinhold S. Schumann...
...fact that merchants were beginning to reorder. New York's Kirby, Block & Co., which acts as buyer for more than 100 member stores, reported that a quick pickup in new orders followed in spring's steps. "The fast step-up in customer purchasing,'' said Milton J. Greenebaum, Kirby, Block's president, "is revealing many thin spots in inventories. Now retailers are rushing orders aimed at filling these gaps...