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Precisely at 8 o'clock one night last week, the slight, heavily shackled form of 28-year-old English Engineer Peter Poole dropped through the hangman's trap door in Nairobi Prison. For the first time in Kenya's history, a white man was executed for killing an African...
...Best from Everywhere. For the rest of the summer the Bluebell will run three times a day on weekends (47? a round trip first class, 35? second). Between its fares and the contributions of buffs from Nairobi to New York, the Bluebell Society expects to "preserve puffers for posterity." And with Britain alone scuttling an average of four steam locomotives a day, says Captain Peter Manistry, R.N. (ret.), a charter Bluebell member, "we can select the best steams from everywhere. Why, we'll be unique...
...Plane & by Foot. Early this year, the Manhattan doctors started treating 24 Africans from remote parts of Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. Most of the patients traveled to Nairobi and Kampala, some by hospital plane, others by ambulance or on shanks' mare, barefoot. They represented more than a dozen tribes; some spoke languages so obscure that a series of three interpreters was needed. More than half the patients had cancer of some kind in the head, but seven had cancer of the cervix, one of the greatest killers of African women...
...publishing the Corfield report now, British colonial authorities obviously hoped to head off a welling movement among Kenyan nationalists to force Kenyatta's release. In mid-May African leaders elected Kenyatta head of the new Kenyan African National Union, gave the government in Nairobi a month to release him or face civil disobedience. In rebuttal, the British argue that Kenyatta's release would put a bloody end to Colonial Office plans for Kenya's peaceful transition to independence, and point to the fact that already, fear of the Mau Mau is returning. Last week, following mounting reports...
...cried, his voice choked with emotion, but the angry farmers of his district shouted, "You are selling us out!" Six weeks ago, Blundell could fairly claim that half the whites in Kenya were behind him; today, after the concessions he made at the constitutional talks in London, experts in Nairobi agree that 10% would be a closer figure...