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With $4500 received so far, Project Tanganyika is still far short of the $30,000 needed by this summer to send ten undergraduates to Africa next year. Project director Walter W. Harp '64 is confident that the goal will be reached, however...
Among fellow anthropologists, Britain's L.S.B. Leakey is revered-with reservations. Since 1931 he has been excavating the Olduvai Gorge in Tanganyika, which is perhaps the richest known deposit of human and prehuman fossils. The site of Leakey's excavations was once a small lake that gradually filled and dried up, preserving in stone the bones of many creatures, some of them primates, that lived on its shores. Much later, a river cut a canyon through the lake bed, bringing the bones to light...
...trip through Freedom Alley. Thousands more will follow as South Africa's black and colored people grow ever more restive under Hendrik Verwoerd's oppressive regime. Most of the refugees are young men (usually in their 20s or 30s) headed for freedom-fighter training camps, either around Tanganyika's capital of Dar es Salaam or else in the Leopoldville Congo, where promising recruits are picked for intensive guerrilla and sabotage courses in Ethiopia, Egypt and Algeria...
SAFARIS. UNBELIEVABLY LOW COST. 30 DAYS IN BOTH UGANDA AND TANGANYIKA. ONLY...
...Nairobi. His 1,200-man army was gone-dissolved by burly President Abeid Karume, who had tired of Okello's manic ravings. No sooner had the field marshal arrived than Karume sent him winging back to the mainland. There, Okello called a press conference on the veranda of Tanganyika's Dares Salaam Club, sadly explained that he had been kicked out of Zanzibar because some people, "four or five" at least, felt he carried the seeds of death. "Wherever I go there will be bloodshed," he mourned. But the old elan returned when he was asked how many...