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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...native army and the Kenya police, Nandi trackers and jungle fighters played a big part in suppressing the Mau Mau terrorists of the rival Kikuyu tribe, and the government even went so far as to urge those who stayed in the bush to arm themselves in a sort of informal native civil-defense corps. Happy as kids let out of school to fight a grass fire, the Nandi promptly got busy making war arrows...
...Carpet, on Manhattan's East 56th Street, is the sort of room that offers music only as an incidental attraction. Mirror-lined, plushly padded, it opened a year ago as a refuge for after-theater drinkers, celebrities and celebrity seekers ("The beautiful Red Carpet," says its ad. "enjoys the brilliant reputation of being 'The Place' "). The bored piano trio that alternates with the featured singer specializes in smooth-as-cream show tunes and a sleepy metronome beat. In pink satin pajamas, West Coast Pianist-Singer Kitty White pounds out a bouncing, husk-voiced version of Almost Like...
...room Tokyo apartment, takes a slightly jaundiced view of her sudden success: "I don't know what's different or good about me." Nevertheless, she has more offers for theater dates than she can handle, has just been signed for a movie. "She has a sort of refined wildness," says one producer. For all her highly publicized sex appeal ("Sensational! Untamed!"), Michiko has more female fans than male, chiefly because Japanese men prefer their women more submissive, get nervous at the thought of untamed flaming youth. "What she will do or say next," said one apprehensive Japanese admirer...
Perhaps voluntary giving might provide an answer to this dilemma, though with solicitation occuring so regularly, such a plan does not seem completely feasible. This student advocates some sort of organized fund drive to raise the standard of these pitifully black receptacles. Joseph C. Walker...
...Life scatter-fire-and-look-for-the-oddities approach manifested in the polls has been explained away as a play for the interest of the Newspapers. which are said to be looking for this sort of thing in yearbooks. Yet in 321, this attitude extends beyond the polls. In all of its essayings into undergraduate life there is a failure to ask why. Even in the mediocre best of the lot, an article on religion at Harvard, the Yearbook holds itself to a straight reporting job, never allowing the fact to flower into truth. As a result, its record...