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...N.A.A.C.P., who flew to Kenya from the U.S. to advise on tactics. Kenya's white settler extremists firmly reject the idea of an African government and insist that Britain remain in control indefinitely. Last week Governor Sir Patrick Renison signed a red-ribboned document formally ending the seven-year Mau Mau state of emergency. In Nairobi's African locations, thousands of natives celebrated on a native beer called pombe, and burned the hated identification passbooks they have had to carry...
...threat was not to De Gaulle himself: as President, he holds a seven-year contract. But it could very well undermine Premier Debre, a talented and remote lawyer faithful to De Gaulle but with little popularity of his own. Foreign confidence in the franc and the continued soundness of the French economy were at issue in the challenge posed by Antoine Pinay this week to Charles de Gaulle, returning to his first Cabinet meeting of the new year...
...quick conference with Onassis in Monte Carlo. Then Maria flew back to her villa in Milan, pleading innocence of any and all storm-brewing. But who was the shadowy Mrs. J.R., accused by Tina of being Onassis' great and good friend on a semi-global scale over a seven-year period? To some newsmen, it was all Greek, but others soon zeroed in on an American, a handsome, blonde Riviera expatriate, J. (for Jeanne) Schley R. (for Rhinelander), 34, divorced in 1952 from Manhattan Landynast T. (for Thomas) J (for Jackson) Oakley Rhinelander. To Jeanne, self-described...
Italy's President Giovanni Gronchi, 72, is a left-minded politician serving a seven-year term of office in the ornate, mirrored Quirinale Palace, which he considers a gilded cage. Playing host to the beauteous Grace Kelly and her husband, the Prince of Monaco, as he did fortnight ago, comes under the heading of work; Gronchi longs to play a more vital role in world politics...
...raised on a Maine farm, Dixon is an Antioch graduate (1939). He did the school's part-time circuit (alternating terms of study and work) by night clerking and bus building, went on to Harvard Medical School and a career in public health. Dr. Dixon did a notable seven-year job as Philadelphia's commissioner of public health, became known as an able administrator with a keen sense of politics. At Antioch, which has some reputation for progressive preciousness as well as for successful schooling, Dixon announced that he aims to "invade the frontiers of the status...