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...week before, the government had arrested and exiled Dr. Hastings Banda, the Pied Piper of Nyasa nationalism. To justify its action, the government had hinted at an African plot to massacre the whites. Yet, as of week's end, not one white in Nyasaland had been touched, but 43 blacks had been killed and another 400 detained or exiled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CENTRAL AFRICA: Being Stupid | 3/23/1959 | See Source »

...club currently has six men with the requisite commercial licenses, and hopes to add six more in the very near future. It will rent its planes (Piper Tripacers) from the East Coast Aviation Service, and will operate out of Bedford Airport...

Author: By John P. Demos, | Title: Flying Club Offers Charter Trips At Cost to Any Points in Area | 2/13/1959 | See Source »

Walt Disney Presents (ABC, 8-9 p.m.). The Hollywood Pied Piper's new Story of Robin Hood, filmed in authentic English underbrush with an all-English cast headed by Richard Todd as the harmless Hood. First of a two-part legend...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 29, 1958 | 12/29/1958 | See Source »

...stay on the road along which everything has already been said.'' In an effort to avoid that fate, he has produced such bizarre works as High Voltage, a ballet that features a flashing pylon on the stage. The Flute Player, which tells the story of the Pied Piper against a tape of a children's chorus played at double speed. Three years ago his opera Imagery of Saint-Michel created a scandal in Venice, chiefly because the action takes place in a prizefight ring, with Archangel Michael represented by a contralto dressed in a boxer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Composer with Punch | 12/1/1958 | See Source »

...they write. With his 22nd novel, Veteran Nevil Shute again proves himself one of the best practitioners of Group 2. Shute's surefire system is to take some typical or moving theme -nuclear fallout in On the Beach, race prejudice in The Chequer Board, homeless children in Pied Piper. He weaves in plenty of stirring incidents and peoples his pages with strongly sympathetic, highly moral characters who land deep in a pit of trouble in the first chapter, are often still there by the last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Pluck & Poignancy | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

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