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...slim and graceful, furled like striped umbrellas into acres of cotton cloth-some green, some plum, some crimson, and all decorated with patterns of elephants, tropical fish, signs of the zodiac and portraits of the late King George VI. The men, short, square and knobbly at the knees, wore Palm Beach shirts, open at the neck and hanging, like Harry Truman's, outside their shorts; a few had flowing togas, draped off one shoulder so that they looked like British soccer players decked out as Romans. Everyone in the procession was black, and proud...
Suddenly, like the Red Sea parting before the Israelites,the noisy crowd opened. Through a forest of waving palm branches, an open car bore a husky black man with fine-sculptured lips, melancholy eyes and a halo of frizzy black hair. The Right Honorable Kwame Nkrumah (pronounced En-kroom-ah), Bachelor of Divinity, Master of Arts, Doctor of Law and Prime Minister of the Gold Coast, waved a white handkerchief to his countrymen as they fought to touch the hem of his tunic. Then, as the band hit the groove, he jigged his broad shoulders in time to the whirling...
...north, who furnish the backbone of Britain's tough West African Rifles, are Moslems. The South is divided between the ex-cannibal Ibos and sturdy Yoruba farmers, whose ancient city, Ibadan (pop. 400,000), is the largest native city in Africa. Chief resources: tin, coal and palm oil. Since 1939 Nigeria's national income has multiplied six times...
...Africa. Population: 16 million, including 62,000 "Europeans," and a colonial "elite," the product of the French policy of "assimilating" educated Africans into French culture. (French colonial officers may claim family allowances for their illegitimate half-caste offspring; some get allowances for 30 or more little half & halfs.) Resources: palm kernels, peanuts and Senegalese infantrymen...
...Last Resorts, by Cleveland Amory. An agreeably lighthearted historian applies a social stethoscope to Newport, Bar Harbor, Saratoga, Palm Beach and other aging resorts of the rich (TIME...