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...bombings around Nkrumah's statue in Accra on the eve of the royal visit in order to justify the crackdown on the opposition. The reasoning is that United Party agents would have done the job completely and blasted the statue to smithereens, which would have been an ill omen in fetish-conscious Ghana; the fact that the statue was only damaged, on the other hand, is a good omen for Osagyefo. In Kumasi, one Nkrumah flunky admitted to planting dynamite in the car of a United Party member in order to implicate him in a plot against the state...
White Mother. But the primitive Bamangwato, whatever the British said, persisted in recognizing Seretse as leader-especially after his homecoming was greeted by a pula, or downpour, greatest good omen in thirsty Bechuanaland. The tribesmen revered their white queen as Mihuma-Kghadi, "Mother of Us All." And surprisingly, Ruth made fast friends among Bechuanaland's 3,000 Europeans, who only a few years ago could not have conceived of condoning a black-white marriage. Seretse stayed busy looking after his herds of 25,000 cattle and his growing family (three boys and one girl). Last week, as Britain started...
From the Federal Reserve Board came the best economic omen yet: an announcement that industrial production had jumped 2.5% in April-the biggest increase since December 1959. But the great debate among U.S. economists last week dealt not with the prospects for recovery but with a problem that may well endure far beyond recovery: unemployment. Economists of the stripe of Federal Reserve Board Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. believe that, for the first time in its history, the U.S. may be facing the emergence of several million "unemployables"-men and women who cannot get jobs even in good times...
...discipline and sacrifice for the national interest into the realm of public opinion. One gathers that his desire for greater newspaper concern with national security was prompted by the press's treatment of the Cuban affair. If so (and the ambiguity of his remarks is in itself a bad omen), Kennedy's speech was a defensively hypocritical one. Worse, it was an indication that this Administration is slowly sealing itself off from its potential critics...
President Kennedy was loafing through the weekend at his Middleburg, Va., estate when he got a call from his press secretary telling him that Congolese ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba was officially dead. It was, the President knew, an omen of worse to come. He issued a moderate statement expressing his "shock" at the news, then waited edgily for the predictable Russian response...