Word: tanganyika
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...handsome Guido is the perpetrator of one of the slickest impersonations since the Prisoner of Zenda. His wacky tales of life in the Italian submarine service (he learned his English by sneaking up behind U.S. warships and watching the recreation movies), of golf games in Tanganyika (the course went up the side of Kilimanjaro; he shot a 77 and four Mau Mau), were not the product of an overheated Latin imagination. He has never been nearer to Italy than the pasticcerie of Manhattan's West Side, where he grew up. Guido Panzini's real name is Pat Harrington...
Mngwas & Mammoths. Heuvelmans presents evidence about dozens of shadowy creatures that are still waiting for acceptance. Africa swarms with unestablished animals, e.g., pygmy rhinoceroses, aquatic elephants and small, spotted mountain lions. Tanganyika has its mngwas, which are generally described as giant cats, big as donkeys, and striped like a household tabby. Natives of many parts of Africa believe in a 30-ft., dragonlike reptile with a long neck, that lives in swamps as did the long-extinct brontosaurus. Heuvelmans thinks it may be the strange, scaly creature shown in bas-relief on the Ishtar Gate of ancient Babylon...
...Sikhs, Ismaili and Shia Moslems, Parsees and Christians from Portuguese Goa. The fourth Aga Khan left his Harvard studies in 1957 to be installed not in Pakistan but in Africa, where his Ismaili followers once weighed his portly grandfather in diamonds. The shop signs of Dar es Salaam in Tanganyika are almost all Indian-V. B. Patel, the timber merchant; H. J. Peerani, the baker; Mohanlal, the tailor. In Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, the Indians are called Banyans, and elsewhere whatever the African wants to buy-a bolt of cotton, a kerosene lamp, a bicycle-it is almost invariably...
...million tourist revenue, and is still growing. There are seven safari firms operating out of Nairobi this year (v. one in 1939). Once confined to a 100-mile radius of civilized Nairobi (pop. 230,000), the quest for big game has spread from northern Uganda to southern Tanganyika. The white hunters who lead safaris are making more money than ever-$7,000 a year is average and $14,000 is not uncommon for the popular hunters. Luxury is at an alltime high too. Today no high-class safari leaves Nairobi without comforts that range from a special scout...
...with him in the very dining room that Barbara Castle had made memorable. Finally, one midnight, an immigration officer got Stonehouse out of bed to warn him that he could be declared a "prohibited immigrant." Next morning, after a "token struggle," Stonehouse found himself on a plane bound for Tanganyika...