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...friendly mien. The first British pioneers to set foot in Zululand met with a truly stunning cordiality. Executions were held in their honor. Shaka signed peace pacts with his guests, ceded them his kingdom (he had no intention of delivering), asked little more in return than a supply of Rowland's Macassar Oil. A bottle of this popular British hairdressing had arrived in some visitor's medicine chest; since it seemed to restore hair color, the aging Shaka decided that it possessed rejuvenatory powers...
...reporters, to be sure, were happy with the rebels. Warned the Herald Tribune's Rowland Evans and Robert Novak: "Adventurers are running the rebel command, but they maintain only tenuous control over all their forces. Rebel strongpoints, particularly in the southeast section of Santo Domingo, are manned by Communists with only token allegiance to Caamaño." And after spending a week in Santo Domingo, Newsday's Marguerite Higgins filed another minority report: "Be wary of all those claims of widespread support for the rebel Constitutionalists or the loyalist junta. This reporter has been impressed by the hazards...
...ROWLAND Hollywood...
...abroad." Lamented New York Daily News Columnist Ted Lewis: "The most marked difference between the Johnson Administration and others in our lifetime is the lack of trustworthy news leaks as to what is in the works at the presidential level." On Manhattan's TV Channel 13, Columnist Rowland Evans demanded: "Whose purpose is served by this curious shying away from the press?" Evans' answer: "The only conceivable beneficiary is the President himself...
...that one governor, Montagu Norman, almost singlehanded brought down the Labor government in 1931 by publicly criticizing its extravagant policies. Since then, little love has been lost between Labor's leaders and the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street. Last week the bank's current governor, George Rowland Stanley Baring, the third Earl of Cromer, stirred Britain and shocked Labor with the sternest public lecture on economy yet issued by a public servant under the Wilson government. The tough talk showed the considerable extent to which British politics are being influenced by the country's bankers...