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Kenya's witch doctors are an impressive lot. Clad in ostrich plumes, tarbooshes, beaded caps, seashell belts and fur aprons, they emit noises even stranger than their appearance as they stalk along with pebble-filled antelope horns, porcupine quills and fly whisks. Their satchels of leopard or monkey skin bulge with the tools of their trade: magical elixirs (miti-shambd), dead and living animals, hammers, chisels and dung. They represent the only form of medical attention paid to nearly 80% of Kenya's 8,000,000 Africans and Asians, despite a government program that has spent...
...Garland Dance, the Polka Sleigh Ride and the Christmas Star, in which the gals kneel in the dark, hold candles and sing carols. Meyer Davis' band struck up Every thing's Coming Up Roses, swung into rock 'n' roll for the watusi, frug and monkey lovers. And before anybody realized it, it was 3 a.m. -and Good Night, Ladies...
...mother of one of the contestants in the Miss Teenage America contest in Dallas, I hasten to take great exception to your flip reporting of the event [Nov. 20]. These young ladies were fine, dignified representatives of their cities and states. The only time they did the monkey and the bird was at a purely recreational function, after putting in grueling rehearsal hours for the telecast. At all times they were protected by security officers, in addition to their mothers or chaperones...
...Cover) The Simbas came at 7 o'clock. Grim-faced in their manes of monkey fur and feathers, they banged on the doors of the Residence Victoria with spears and gun butts, roughly hustled their white hostages out into the street. For an hour, the skies over Stanleyville had pulsed with airplane engines and apprehension. Watchers on the rooftops saw parachutes bloom and fall over the airfield to the west; gunfire ticked closer in the near distance. The Belgians had come, and help for the hostages was on its way-fast, but for many not fast enough...
...from Redondo Beach barbecues. The diet was bananas, papayas and pineapples; goats, chickens and an occasional antelope. Though missionaries from the Evangelical Covenant network occasionally visited back and forth, amusement was usually family style: games of Scrabble, hymn singing, reading. The kids raised cats and dogs; Wayne built a monkey cage. It was hardly the usual Schweitzer-at-Lambarene scene. Even when the rebels showed up, it was far from dramatic...