Word: townes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kenyatta was not yet a free man. From his cell near the Sudan border, he and five Mau Mau extremists were hustled under close guard to the tiny government outpost of Lodwar. There, in the empty, arid northern frontier district, 216 miles from the nearest town, Kenyatta will live in exile in two rooms, cooking his own government-supplied food. He may roam the local area, but must report daily to the district commissioner and must remain inside his quarters from sunset to dawn. He may receive out-of-town visitors only with permission of the Nairobi government. He will...
...permanent grin on his bearded face, Prime Minister Fidel Castro flew into Washington last week and spared neither energy nor charm in putting a good face on his revolution and trying "to understand better the United States." He even kissed a baby in a Washington park. In a town where winning friends rates high on the scale of admired talents, he won a lot of admiration...
Paul Baker began acting in plays while he was a schoolboy in Waxahachie, Texas, went on to study drama at the town's Trinity University. In 1933 he studied at Yale under the university's late famed Drama Professor George Pierce Baker (no kin). Next year he had set up a shop in a onetime chapel at Baylor, produced an experimental play. All the while he inveighed against the restrictions of conventional theaters-theaters with "one box for the actor and another box for the audience and that's all." The first thing he decided...
...when a Greenwich, Conn, housewife objected to his appearance in her town. Eventually Adler went back to England. Vaughan Williams wrote a piece for him; so did Darius Milhaud and Cyril Scott and Arthur Benjamin. In time, U.S. producers asked him to return. Now recording contracts are waiting along with nightclub engagements. "I'd like to alternate between the U.S. and the rest of the world," he says, but there is no doubt that recognition at home is what pleases him most. "I played part of Porgy recently," he recalls, "and a member of the cast told...
Persecuted by the Jews and Romans alike, the Samaritans dwindled again to a tiny community. Today they number barely 350: about 200 near the Jordanian town of Nablus (Biblical Shechem), and another 130 across the border in the Israeli town of Haik...