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...InterContinental hotels. Completely new additions to the chain were rising at Lahore and Rawalpindi in Pakistan, Nicaragua's Managua, and Auckland, N.Z. This month the company will break ground in Manila, and architects are drafting plans for hotels in Victoria Falls and Lusaka in Zambia, and Nairobi, Kenya. Inter-Continental is even represented behind the Iron Curtain with Zagreb's Esplanade, and emissaries are dickering with Hungarian Communists about helping to run a hotel in Budapest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hotels: To End Uncertain Comforts | 2/3/1967 | See Source »

...strangest things happen to air liners in Africa. A BOAC flight into Nairobi once touched down by mistake in the game park just outside of town...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Unhappy Landing of Flight 150 | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

Last month Ibo passengers on West African Airways' London-to-Lagos jet were hauled off the plane and machine-gunned in the northern Nigerian way station of Kano. Pan American's New York-to-Nairobi Flight 150 lived up to the tradition. Last week a simple refueling halt enroute grew into an international incident...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Unhappy Landing of Flight 150 | 11/11/1966 | See Source »

DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30-noon). Off to Kenya's Nairobi National Game Park to examine Africa's vanishing wild life and the efforts being made to preserve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 22, 1966 | 7/22/1966 | See Source »

...would be proof that the elections were rigged. "You can be a friend of Kenyatta's only if you crawl and cringe like a hyena," he cried. "He is a frightened man with a little heart." Jomo proved to be equally adept at badinage. At a rally in Nairobi, he warned that the dissidents were prepared to buy votes. "If these people offer money," he said, "you must know it is foreign money meant to undermine the sovereignty of our country. Beware of this political prostitution. Take the money-but vote for KANU...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Kenya: Another Sweep for Jomo | 7/8/1966 | See Source »

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