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...those who have seen Kenyatta recently say that in his 60s he is an alcoholic wreck. There are younger challengers to Mboya too, and his Luo origin remains a handicap among the Kikuyu, who resent the fact that the Luos stayed out of the Mau Mau troubles and inherited good jobs in Nairobi...
...Pacifist groups sometimes exploit the protest, as they did in the pre-World War II days; but the real complaint is the U.S. Army's archaic training course on campus. While wags deride the jazzy new forest-green uniform ("Robin Hood's Men"), those who wear it resent long hours of playing doughboy with World War I machine guns. Last week dissidents were stirring up many a state university campus. Samples...
Nothing for Background. The pencil newsmen tend to regard their TV colleagues as upstarts who know little more about journalism than how to plug a cable into a socket. The newspapermen resent being forced to feed their best questions to the TV competition, and they feel strongly that the camera's presence spoils the essential informality of press conferences. How can a news source say, "Now, if I may explain for your background," when mikes are open and cameras are grinding...
Although Eisenhower, patriot that he is, declares his willingness to swear every morning that he is not a Communist, he feels that the universities have a right to resent being "singled out" as a group of potential subversives. He regards a basic citizenship oath as sufficient...
Libyans also resent supervision of aid projects by U.S. teams, as the daily Fezzan grumbled: "We receive from America a sum of money that we are not allowed to spend as we see fit. The money is channeled to us through uneconomical agencies that keep highly paid foreign employees and fleets of cars." The sight of U.S. housewives flitting by in outsize station wagons is apt to outrage a poor and proud mule-borne Libyan male who keeps his own wife shrouded in a baracan. Well aware of Libyan sensitivities, embassy and Air Force work hard to avoid riling...