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...PEOPLE, by Chinua Achebe. Nigeria has produced a fine wit capable of taking the blundering chaos of a yet uncreated nation and making it the topical stage for a heartbreaking comedy...
CHINUA ACHEBE, 36, Nigeria's foremost writer, achieves the sophisticated feat of looking at his country with humor and satire. See BOOKS...
...People, Achebe, a 35-year-old Lagos broadcasting official who is Nigeria's foremost writer, illuminates today's confused events along the opaque waters of the Niger. Life imitates art, but seldom so promptly on cue. Achebe's book sounds the obituary drums for "the fat-dripping, gummy, eat-and-let-eat regime" that history has extinguished, and makes clear why his still unstable nation should turn to military government. In fact, his novel ends with just such a military coup, the first of many, it seems...
Offscreen, Heston is president of the Screen Actors Guild and a frequent industry spokesman. He has made four tours from Nigeria to Australia for the State Department. Last week he spent two days in Washington testifying before a Senate subcommittee on community-antenna television. As early as 1961, when most of his colleagues were ignoring the Negro revolution, Heston joined a civil rights demonstration in Oklahoma City. In 1963 he publicly attacked Hollywood's "sorry record" of discrimination...
...base at Peenemünde who later moved to the U.S. to run an aircraft supply business, then disappeared in Africa in July 1964, while delivering a twin-engined Beechcraft to the Congo; when a native came across the wreckage 9,000 ft. up Cameroon Mountain, just south of Nigeria, and the British Foreign Office reported identifying the body...