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...Ghana's ambitious leader, Kwame Nkrumah. His principal purpose at the conference last week seemed to be to act as a counterweight to Kenya's young, aggressive Labor Leader Tom Mboya, 29, and to represent his absent chiefs-Kenyatta and Nkrumah-who view Mboya as an upstart rival...
...While upstart journals of opinion busy themselves with trying to predict events of the whole decade, the CRIMSON continues its responsible task of holding a moist forefinger up to see which way the winds of the coming year are blowing. After an afternoon spend with the entrails of Yard pigeons, we have come up with the following. We can only hope that among our readers a few will be moved to clip out our prophesis and confirm their accuracy next January...
Michener's gigantic work loses pace in its final section, as the descendants of the New Englanders and their upstart adversaries seem to forget both animosities and identities, and the author drums busily for tourism and statehood (the novel was finished before statehood came last spring). Honolulu Resident Michener strives hard for a lyric quality as the two-party system triumphs and the barons and their onetime vassals sit happily together on the same interlocking directorates. But after all the blood and gusto, such gentle music is hardly audible...
...produce the 1914 war. Into the ship-shaped house of an aged English sea captain (Maurice Evans), himself the voice of a more high-mettled era, there troop, like creatures into the Ark, a ruling-class woman, a femme fatale, a shy, dashing Englishman, a footless, philandering one, an upstart capitalist, his kind, downtrodden factotum-even an unexpected burglar. At the opposite end, in the assemblage, from grizzled old Captain Shotover is bright-eyed young Ellie Dunn, standing for the future as he for the past, proving most malleable as he is most...
...Other games: Starting a drive for a national championship, the mighty Iowa Hawkeyes spotted California an early touchdown, then came back to win 42-12. Beefy Ohio State had to struggle mightily to edge upstart Duke, 14-13. Once-great Michigan State, still reeling from last season's debacle (three wins, five defeats), got off on the wrong foot by losing 9-7 to Texas A. & M. Outweighed 20 Ibs. a man, stubborn Tennessee upset Auburn, 3-0, to snap major college football's longest unbeaten string at 24 games...