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While the Congo was a Belgian colony, 35-year-old Robert Kinda worked hard washing clothes in a Leopoldville laundry. He also did a few personal favors for one of the customers, Thomas Kanza, 27, the Belgian-educated son of a local politico...
Black Gold, Little Trickle. This patched up things on the surface but did not solve the deeper politico-economic sickness that has plagued pro-U.S. President Betancourt and opened him to charges of inmovilismo-do-nothingness. Although black gold blesses Venezuela with Latin America's highest per capita income ($875), half the 6,894,000 Venezuelans live and hunger in squalid shacks. They wonder why the riches do not trickle down, and many view Betancourt as ineffective compared to their mental picture of onrushing Cuba...
...bulk of Algeria's Moslems, including some who outwardly "collaborate" with France, continue to sympathize with the F.L.N. demand for independence. Higher wages for Moslem workers often help finance a bigger contribution to F.L.N. coffers, and time and again, French authorities have announced the destruction of the rebel "politico-administrative" organization in an Algerian town only to find it totally rebuilt within a few months...
Barry Goldwater's Conscience is not likely to win many disciples to the Republican Party in an election year when the middle of the road is already overcrowded. But his book serves notice that the Old Guard has new blood, that a hardworking, successful politico has put up his stand on the right side of the road and intends to shout for all he is worth as the parade goes...
...grade, to work for a carting firm as a $3-a-week dispatcher's helper. Industrious, personable, and gifted with a flair for oratory, he early caught the eye of the Fourth Ward's Democratic political chieftains, fellow Irishmen all. When he was 21, a Fourth Ward politico got him a job in the office of the commissioner of jurors, serving jury duty summonses, and from there the ladder of politics led upward. Elected to the state assembly in 1903 at 29, he became speaker of the assembly in 1913. In 1918 he won the first...