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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Told My People . . ." As a precaution against a Nairobi mob demonstrating in Kenyatta's favor, the court was moved to Kitale, 200 miles to the north. Kenyatta's seven-year sentence to "hard labor" is being spent as cook to six other Mau Mau leaders, and with a year off for good behavior, he is scheduled to be freed next month. Last week Kenyatta appeared in court in dapper leather jacket and carrying a silver-embossed ebony cane that was a gift of his followers. Whistling through a hole in his front teeth, he testified that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: The Roots of the Fig Tree | 3/16/1959 | See Source »

...Sigmund spent Christmas and Easter vacations on the continent with Stan Miles, now senior tutor at Dunster, the first in Italy and the second in Spain. "It was really comic opera in Spain. There were four of us--all over six feet--and our luggage, all loaded in Stan's Morris Minor. The unloading process resembled a circus act, and occasionally small crowed gathered to watch...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Around the World | 3/14/1959 | See Source »

After summer school at both Heidelberg and Grenoble ("I wanted to learn French and German, but didn't until somewhat later") Sigmund came to Harvard, and attended GSAS in political theory along with Miles, Hoffman, Brzezinski, and Mavrinac. The next year ("I spent the summer as a car hop in a drive-in restaurant") he began assisting in Gov 1, and the year following was given residence at Dunster and additional work with Gov 106. Then after his third year here he received a grant for study towards his thesis--study which would take him back to Europe. And Sigmund...

Author: By John B. Radner, | Title: Around the World | 3/14/1959 | See Source »

WASHINGTON, March 13-President Eisenhower told Congress today that the almost four billion dollars he wants for foreign aid would be money well spent...

Author: By The ASSOCIATED Press, | Title: Eisenhower Proposes $4 Billion Foreign Aid Budget to Congress; Macmillan Gains French Support | 3/14/1959 | See Source »

Captain Bob Repetto, despite the notorious distinction of having fouled out of 12 of the 25 contests, ended up with a 9.8 average. His rebounding was consistently good, as was his defensive play. Had he not spent so much time on the bench because of personals, he could well have made an important difference in some of the closer games...

Author: By Walter L. Goldfrank, | Title: THE SPORTING SCENE | 3/10/1959 | See Source »

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