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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before dawn one day last week, a detachment of Kenya cops, supported by armored cars, marched into Pumwani, a filth-strewn warren where a large part of Nairobi's 60-odd thousand Kikuyu somehow find space to live. Dragged from their mud huts, 20,000 Kukes were herded into compounds; 2,500 suspected Mau Mau terrorists were culled from among them and clapped into jail. Next day there were more arrests; another 3,500 "suspects" were seized near Thika...
...Counter Blow. When news of the Lahore uprising reached Prime Minister Nazimuddin in Karachi, he ordered 44-year-old Major General Mohammed Azam Khan, commander of the military cantonment outside Lahore, to move into the city and regain control. Ten thousand Pakistani troops put the city under martial law. Within six hours the revolution was over. The Red Cross counted 330 dead at first aid stations. Other dead, picked up and buried by relatives, probably raised the death toll to 1,000 or more...
Last week, on the second anniversary of oil nationalization, a recording machine at Mossadegh's bedside took down his answer to Offer No. 6 so that it might be rebroadcast to the nation. It was no, no, a thousand times no. Then Mossadegh settled back in his bed, and the door was again left ever so slightly ajar...
...mass movements of Kikuyu have naturally worsened a confusion that was already chronic. One official orders a thousand Kukes to be at a railroad siding at dawn for shipment in trucks to the reserves; but another official delivers only sufficient trucks for 300 people. The farmers who have been told to deliver the Kukes at the railroad siding are then left to dispose of the 700 overflow as best they can. Nobody so far has seriously faced up to the position that will soon exist, when there are more Kikuyu in the reserves than the reserves can possibly feed...
...heart of downtown Detroit stands the block-square, 25-story building that houses J. L. Hudson Co., the second largest* department store in the world. To Detroiters, Hudson's is an institution. One hundred thousand of them shop there every day. But outside the city, the huge store is hardly known. The four brothers who own and run it, all nephews of Founder J. L. Hudson, have a long-standing rule of no publicity, refuse to see the press, and have had only one group picture taken in their lives (see cut). Their publicity director, in fact, is under...