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...almost exclusive preserve for the rich, the idle and the professional romantics, ranging from the sturdier of the Riviera set to Ernest Hemingway. But the airplane has made Africa accessible as never before, and since World War II a veritable army of hunters has swarmed into Africa's safari lands...
Nine out of ten of the newcomers are Americans-Madison Avenue admen, Texas oil tycoons, Air Force, Army and Navy brass, and such public personalities as Arthur Godfrey and William Holden. Increasingly, safari firms are catering to a more middle-class trade, in recent years have found doctors, lawyers, dentists and business executives among their steady clients...
Blasé Beasts. Last year safari activity accounted for more than half of East Africa's $17 million tourist revenue, and is still growing. There are seven safari firms operating out of Nairobi this year (v. one in 1939). Once confined to a 100-mile radius of civilized Nairobi (pop. 230,000), the quest for big game has spread from northern Uganda to southern Tanganyika. The white hunters who lead safaris are making more money than ever-$7,000 a year is average and $14,000 is not uncommon for the popular hunters. Luxury is at an alltime high...
High Adventure with Lowell Thomas (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The modern Halliburton's latest 3,500-mile safari from the Bahrein Islands to Zanzibar with son and camera...
...dock in London's Old Bailey and stared up at Mr. Justice Cyril Salmon. Three weeks earlier, armed with iron bars and wooden table legs, crank handles and an air gun, they had piled into a battered car and gone "nigger hunting" in a wild three-hour safari across the Notting Hill district, home of thousands of West Indians. They were, said their lawyer, victims "of the society in which they live...