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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...burly, boyish-faced farmer from the upcountry hills of Kenya stood before an audience of diehard settler folk in the Rift Valley town of Nakuru (pop. 22,481). He was Michael Blundell, 48, Minister without Portfolio in the Kenya government, come home to ask his constituents for a vote of confidence. Blundell has decided that the 2½-year-old Mau Mau war can no longer be won by bullets. One of Kenya's wealthiest farmers, Yorkshire-born Blundell was seeking support for his policy of giving the colony's 6,000,000 Africans and 100,000 Indians...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Man of Character | 3/28/1955 | See Source »

...grandeur. How effective this stratagem can be is shown by Charles Wimar, an immigrant German boy whose murals in the St. Louis Courthouse were the first west of the Mississippi. By painting straight into a sunset, he gave his painting a superb sense of the loneliness of an early settler's sod hut, lost in a distance that dwarfed all things human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: THE WAY WEST | 1/31/1955 | See Source »

...claim-jumper, whose body was found near the Kanab uranium strike with six .45 bullet holes in the head and back and a Geiger counter still clicking in his hand (TIME, May 31). The sheriff promptly arrested Wilson's prospecting partner: Tom Holland, 49, a jovial, six-foot settler, who had driven off with Wilson the day of the murder, but came back alone. He claimed that he had dropped Wilson, returned early to carouse with friends. "You've got a fast horse and a long loop, sheriff," said Tom Holland, "but you've got the wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Geiger-Counter Murder | 9/6/1954 | See Source »

Some kind of French retreat seems inevitable in North Africa, as it was in Indo-China. The question is whether it will be made in good order. "We must leave," said one French settler. "It could still be done today, gradually and without catastrophe. True, some French colonists may lose their estates. But if things go on as they are, they may lose their heads as well." Probably not many colons in Tunisia would agree with him; they hope to stay. Whether they will be able to depends on French wisdom and skill-on the wisdom to recognize a changing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORTH AFRICA: The Old Order Changes | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...remaining a reporter covering the news of the Pacific Northwest. Says he: "Not only is the country big, but so are the achievements and plans of the people. And the people want you to see what they have done, from the biggest operator down to the gyppologger or the settler who is living in a tent and farming 160 irrigated acres in the Columbia Basin. And in seeing some of this, you get the gnawing feeling that you are never going to catch up with the immensity of the development out here." Cordially yours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Jun. 14, 1954 | 6/14/1954 | See Source »

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