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...Wanted Your Head. In Kenya Crown Colony last week, whites in their remote farmsteads were jumpy and alert. The Mau Mau, striking from their jungle hideouts, were now concentrating mostly on loyal Kikuyus, members of the sturdy tribe on which the Mau Mau prey for their recruits. Chief Ireigi Karamba was shot in both legs and one arm; two African policemen and a Kikuyu schoolteacher were hacked to pieces. Three more tribesmen walked into the ward of a government hospital at Kiambu, sought out their chief, Hinga Hinga, who was recovering from a Mau Mau ambush, and shot him dead...
...avenues" it takes. The first, the retreat into the "vacuum" of irreligion, has always been a passing phase. The second is far more dangerous. It occurred when disciples of the "scientific outlook" or "atheist humanism," who began their movements as a protest against Christianity, fell prey to substitute "religions" of their own devising. "[This] retreat from Christianity into religion . . . may fill that [spiritual] vacuum . . . giving life to the paganisms and idolatries . . . from which the gospel once delivered...
Crosby is outstanding because his highly literate humour makes the sitting duck a worthwhile prey. Pleasing the victims of radio and T.V. with far more than the public expression of their private irritation, Crosby budgeons the asinine with genuine artistry. He attacks script cliches with quiet exasperation, and the patently foolish with deadly understatement. The charm of Crosby's style is that you never feel the reins of his restraint. With no pretense of detachment, his approach is utterly personal. Amusement, annoyance, and occasionally wrath all find expression in a relaxed conversational tone. With this combination of wit and ease...
...Deadly Trio. By the time Stehle arrived at the scene of the kill, Diana had the rabbit pinned, one foot on its back, the other on its head, her wings tenting the prey. She whimpered excitedly while Stehle distracted her with a spare piece of rabbit meat and took the kill from her claws. The rabbit was pouched and Diana was re-thonged. Ferret Mookie stayed underground while the hawk was airborne, but he quickly emerged and was re-pocketed to await the next assignment...
...always undergoing revision." What is the current plan? Having brought 800 million people under its sway (up from 190 million only a few years ago), the Soviet Union now hopes that "the free world-crowded back on its own defenses-may be led to fall into factions and prey upon itself." The Communists could be counted on to exploit this possibility to the hilt-by wooing and threatening America's allies away from their allegiance. In the U.S., the Reds will appeal to "every smoldering prejudice," warning "with sly insinuation against British imperialism and German neo-Naziism, against...