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...student at Oxford whose father, Artist Reynolds Stone, was commissioned to design the new mauve, brown and blue fiver (worth $14). At a loss for a model, her father draped Phillida in a sheet, sat his daughter down with a stick in one hand to represent Britannia's spear. Her traditional olive branch was sketched in later. Some found the new design an agreeable change from the buxom figure on most other money. Other Britons thought Phillitannia "clumsily designed," "like Snow White" and "too much like a bathing beauty." Even Phillida-who might have been expected to welcome...
...confidence of African leaders. Socially he kept aloof in his gleaming white Nairobi residence amid its sprawling gardens, inviting the European elite in for an occasional cocktail party (with Lady Renison keeping a close personal eye on the liquor bills). He is particularly disliked by Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, who will probably be independent Kenya's first ruler. In 1960, opposing Jomo's release from detention as a ringleader of the 1952"59 Mau Mau terror, Renison warned that Kenyatta would lead the country to "darkness and to death...
...HCUA also voted a present a PBH plan to the House Committees during the next week. PBH has spear-headed a drive to allow 'Cliffies to inter-house in the private dining rooms during the week for official meetings of undergraduate organizations...
...Uhuru!" (Freedom) bellowed the burly, bearded African in red shirt and beaded cap. "Uhuru na ushindi!" (Freedom and victory) roared back the weaving, excited mob of 20,000 arrayed before him in Nairobi's stadium. Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta had lost none of his magic appeal with the crowds in the decade since he was jailed for leading the bloody Mau Mau rebellion. He also still had plenty of his political acumen, for Burning Spear quickly converted the happy celebration of the tenth anniversary of his arrest into a political rally to further the course of his KANU party...
...estimated 2,000 members; police recently have been arresting 200 suspects a week, fearing that the whole project to give Kenya self-government will be jeopardized if mass murders begin again. Britain's Governor Sir Patrick Renison urges Kenyatta to speak out against the Freedom Army but Burning Spear shrugs the problem away, suggests that the British are merely building up a pretext to delay independence...