Word: nairobi
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...Edward G. Robinson, 68,stricken by a heart attack on location for Sammy Going South, 6,000 ft. high in the foothills of Tanganyika's Mount Kilimanjaro. Grizzly with chin whiskers sprouted for his role as a diamond smuggler with a heart of gold. Robinson roared from his Nairobi hospital bed: "I've never held up a production in my life. I'll be back on the set tomorrow." Doctors ordered three weeks' rest...
...years ago, Nairobi was a bustling, prosperous capital with hopes of a vigorous future. Today, beggars are on the streets, capital is pouring out of the country, and industrial unemployment has risen to 25%. Reason: the dramatic rush toward black rule has convinced many of the colony's 65,000 European settlers that there is no hope in Kenya for anyone with white skin...
...Downey, biggest of Nairobi's safari firms, is already considering setting up shop on the Bechuanaland border as a hedge against a bad slump in Kenya...
...thousands of blacks thrown out of work by the farm shutdowns flock to Nairobi, where shantytowns are growing up on the city's fringes. Crime is soaring; auto thefts have doubled in the past year, and many a white farmer upcountry now packs a pistol everywhere he goes-just as he did in the Mau Mau days...
Were Maudling's hopes illusory? Hardly had the Kenya Africans stepped off their planes in Nairobi when squabbling broke out among the leaders, notably KANU'S grey-bearded Jomo ("Burning Spear'') Kenyatta. 72. and solemn Ron ald Ngala, 39, president of KADU,* and since 1961 top African in the Kenya cabinet. Though Kenyatta and Ngala will jointly head Kenya's interim govern ment, they sounded like enemies. Bragged Ngala to his supporters on arrival: "KADU has emerged triumphant and has won out against Kenyatta.'' Old Jomo had a sneering retort: "We would have...