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...placards cried "Freedom!" or "Ne Touchez Pas l'Afrique," and the torrent of anticolonialist oratory at the All African People's Conference in Accra last week seemed to have no end. "Whereas, 72 years ago the scramble for Africa started," said young (28) Conference Chairman Tom Mboya of Kenya, "from Accra we announce that these same powers must be told in a clear, firm and definite voice: 'Scram from Africa...
Tito, in a torrent of aggrievement, wondered: "Why such fierce attacks from the Chinese? Do they perhaps want to show their monolithic character and the strength of their 600 million by making Yugoslavia, at their mere shout, disappear as if it never existed?" Tito guessed that there was a quite different reason for the attacks, "but they dare not say this...
Night of the Soul. The one stable relationship of Vincent's life was with his younger brother. And it is to Theo, first cautiously, then in a torrent, that he pours forth his doubts and his struggles. From the coal pits of Belgium, he confessed to Theo his failure as a lay preacher, crying: "How can I be of use in the world? Can't I serve some purpose and be of any good?" But only a few months after this night of the soul, Vincent could write, "Well, even in that deep misery I felt my energy...
...Amid a torrent of abuse, the police whisked the head man, one "Professor" Arturo Rogelio Ferrari, and his students off to the station. It was quite a haul: two lawyers from Bolivia, a literature professor from Ecuador, a schoolteacher from Caracas, another from Panama, a tailor from Colombia, a seamstress from Peru, a mason frorrwltaly. All were following a six-month course that had started four months before. All lived in strict discipline. Reveille was at 6 a.m. to the strains of the Soviet Air Force march. The "students" studied Latin American politics and economics, the place of women...
Boot Polish (Indian). Two quicksilver Indian kids named Baby Naaz and Rattan Kumar, as slum orphans in Bombay, pour out such a torrent of acting virtuosity that a slender fable becomes touched with the glow of a minor masterpiece...