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...College (1960), who had gone to Nigeria with 36 other Peace Corps pioneers to teach. Although she had undergone seven weeks' training at Harvard to prepare for her new life, Margery was shocked when she first saw Ibadan, a city of many slums and open sewers in the upland jungles of Nigeria. While still brushing up on her Nigerian history at a University College of Ibadan indoctrination course, she wrote to a friend, Robert V. Storer at Cambridge, and crammed 150 vivid words onto a 5½-inch by 3½-inch postcard, giving her impressions of Ibadan life...
Down the Cliffs. Dr. Aharoni put his main camp on the upland near the north side of the wadi. He sent men with walkie-talkie radios to the south side...
...pamphlet put out by the tourist office called it "Nyasaland-Darkest Africa in Fairest Mood." But in this fair spot last week the mood could not have been darker. Each day the upland country of clear lakes, sun-splashed valleys and misty mountaintops saw fresh upheavals, and the violence echoed beyond its borders. Not since Britain in 1953 merged Nyasaland with the two Rhodesias-forming a Central African Federation larger than California, Texas and New York combined-has there been such turmoil. And it seemed to be only beginning...
...Upland Air. The government had not forgotten the docile Batonga. Official spokesmen appeared, told the tribesmen they were to be moved to more fertile land. The officials conceded that parts of the new area were infested with lions, elephants and the tsetse fly, but they were sure the Batonga would find the upland air bracing after centuries of breathing the swampy vapors of the Gwembe Valley...
...hunting areas (see color pages). A popular favorite is the friendly little Beagle, often tagged the poor man's hunting dog. Slower than larger hounds, the beagle will not range too far afield of the hunter or frighten game too far ahead of the gun. Oldest upland game dog in the U.S. is the silky-coated English Setter. Northern hunters use this breed for grouse and woodcock while Southerners hunting quail prefer the shorter-haired Pointer...