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...trucks from the provinces surged around the U.S. embassy in Kampala. The mob brandished signs proclaiming TO HELL WITH AMERICA-BLOODTHIRSTY GO HOME! While Cabinet ministers and parliamentarians beamingly watched from the plinth of the Obote Freedom Arch, two rioters scaled the embassy's roof and tore down the American flag...
Died. Lorraine Hansberry, 34, U.S. Negro playwright, daughter of a well-to-do Chicago real estate operator, who wrote and tore up three plays before finding herself with A Raisin in the Sun, a refreshingly honest, wryly humorous study of big-city tenement life that showed Negroes as all-too-human beings instead of ranting symbols of oppression, winning her the 1959 New York Drama Critics Circle Award and earning some $300,000 in movie rights; of cancer; in Manhattan. Her second play, The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window, which examined Greenwich Village's demimonde, opened last...
...into Italy's longest electoral deadlock, impatient Italians recalled the 13th century papal conclave at Viterbo that lasted for 31 years without naming a new Pope. In that long-ago time, the citizens of Viterbo finally locked the cardinals inside a palace, and when that failed, they tore off the roof to let in rain and cold. That did it, and the cardinals elected Gregory...
Boston University, the pre-season pick of many to emerge as the best in the East, is currently second only to Army. The Terriers tore off ten straight wins at the start of the season before tiring. Two of their losses have been at the hands of tough Western schools, Michigan and Colorado, while the third was to their neighbors, Northeastern...
...missionary parents last August during her holiday. She caught the fancy of a Simba captain, who for weeks brutalized her before an audience of his feathered fellow tribesmen. In the end, when the Simbas marched off her parents with the others, the captain offered to spare her. But she tore loose and joined the death march...