Word: valley
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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High above the Great Rift Valley in Kenya, a voice boomed over the frigid slopes of the Aberdare Mountains: "Come out of the forests, my children. You must stop this senseless war. Come out and I promise you good treatment." For ten days and nights the loudspeaker blared its message in Swahili, but its only answer was the rustle of the forest and the sounds of the beasts. Finally, the Rev. William Wellesley Devitt and his nine native companions picked up their gear and returned to Kijabe (Place of the Wind), where a cluster of grey stone buildings clings...
...heart of the Kikuyu country, is the African Inland Mission, nucleus of a vast parish supervised by U.S.-born Baptist Devitt. For 25 years 51-year-old William Devitt and his wife Edith have labored among the Kikuyu, traveling 25,000 miles each year through the Rift Valley to direct the mission's 80 schools for Kikuyu children. The natives affectionately call him "Bwana Jambo" (Mister Hello) because of his friendly greetings. When the Mau Mau revolt began in 1952, Devitt organized Kikuyu of his area to protect themselves. For his pains...
...entered his name on the Democratic ballot in Oregon's presidential primary-but both campaigned for a write-in vote that would give the winner the 16-vote convention delegation. Kefauver returned to Oregon on the day before the primary for a whirlwind handshaking tour down the Willamette Valley. He was too late with too little: Stevenson had already covered more ground, drawn bigger crowds, and won more votes. For a write-in, Oregon's response was remarkable, with about 130,000 Democrats naming a candidate. Result: Stevenson, with about 80,000 votes, buried Kefauver...
20TH CENTURY-FOX movies will appear on TV. For $2,000,000 plus a percentage of all income over $75,000 per picture, Fox will lease 52 films, many first-rank (Les Miserables, Ox-Bow Incident, How Green Was My Valley), to National Telefilm Associates for showing in U.S. and Canada...
...stealing) sheep in the mountains by winter, hoeing a few acres in summer in the lowlands. After 20 centuries, Sardinia may once again win a name as Rome's granary. Already the fund's crewcut, sports-jacketed young Italian engineers are saying that after the Flumendosa Valley is remade, underpopulated Sardinia may be able to absorb thousands of Italy's mainland unemployed...