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...biggest prize of all was Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the black-bearded Kikuyu who runs the Kenya African Union (K.A.U.). A London-trained anthropologist still legally married to a blonde Sussex schoolmistress, Kenyatta (baptized Johnstone Kamau) spent the '30s in Moscow as a student guest of the Kremlin, returned to Kenya to spread the Red gospel. K.A.U. (membership: 100,000) ostensibly seeks home rule for Kenya, but is more likely a screen for Communist and anti-Christian propaganda among Kenya's 5,000,000 blacks. In the hymnbooks used in 300 bush schools supervised by K.A.U., Jomo Kenyatta...
...than Rodin's The Kiss. Rodin had three carvings made of his white-marble couple, and the one at the Tate is the last and best. There was a public furor in 1913 when its owner, a private collector named Edward Warren, lent it for exhibition in a Sussex town hall: local puritans draped a sheet over the nude figures. But since 1939, The Kiss has stood in prominent and honored display in the Tate's hall of sculpture. Britons are used to it now-and proud of it. Last month they learned to their dismay that...
...months after he became a man, John got his feet out from under his father's table. He went to work in a brother-in-law's general store, and soon afterward decided to go in business for himself. Sussex County is chicken country, and John thought Millsboro needed a chicken-feed supplier. He and a brother borrowed a few hundred dollars, part from their father, part from a bank, and started the Millsboro Feed Co. It was no bonanza, but it grew steadily. At 19, John married Elsie Steele, a farm girl. In the early years...
...Williamses are now very wealthy, by Sussex County (but not Wilmington) standards. He is not a millionaire but owns a large interest in a poultry farm (300,000 chickens and 6,000 turkeys a year) and a hatchery (105,000 chicks a week). All in all, Williams owns about 1,000 acres of Delaware farm land, some of it in partnership with relatives...
...away the most ingenious of all British puzzle "setters" is a Sussex schoolmaster named Derrick Somerset Macnutt, whose crosswords appear each fortnight in London's Sunday Observer under the byline Ximenes (a Cardinal Inquisitor of Spain). Ximenes' puzzles, for which he is paid 10 to 15 guineas ($30-$44) apiece, contain clues that range from pure cipher through anagram to outrageous pun. Samples: "Pleased a bag ?14 lighter" in four letters;** "Important city in Czechoslovakia" in four letters ;†† "Shortage of bats at a high level" in six letters...