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...governorship, the Africans will get one-third of all Cabinet posts. But there is still Jomo Kenyatta. Mboya and his party swore to take part in no government until Kenyatta ("our first Chief Minister") is released "unconditionally'' from detention in Lodwar in the Northern Frontier Province wasteland 340 miles away...
Nehru did little to calm the chamber. "Broadly speaking," he said, the Chinese had at least not advanced any farther, though "I cannot guarantee some little curve in a wasteland." He was pessimistic about new negotiations. But he had no plans to try to drive the Chinese out. "While I admire the patriotism, and emotional upsurge of honorable members who tell us to go and push the aggressor out ... it is not an easy matter to indulge in a policy of action that leads almost inevitably, step by step, to war." Nehru admitted that he had not even bothered...
Antarctica may be a frozen, windswept wasteland, but last week it became the first piece of territory which the U.S. and Russia agreed to make a military and nuclear no man's land...
...novel by E. M. Forster, was knocked down for $18,200-said to be the highest price ever paid for a living author's manuscript. The buyer, a Manhattan rare books dealer, also picked up (for another client) a hand copy of T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland, faithfully duplicated by the poet in his own script because the original-last seen many years ago in Manhattan-is missing and presumed lost. Price...
Drive One, Work Two. The trailers, fitted with kitchen, shower, radio, window screens, flush toilet, are as comfortable as Miami bungalows. But the life is not. On the very first day out of Cape Town, one trailer landed in a ditch, and seven dropped out later. Along one rugged wasteland in southern Ethiopia the caravan lost 22 truck axles, and the passengers had to clear the trails themselves. ("Drive a mile," said one lady's diary, "work two hours on the road . . . Everyone very tired...