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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...reform, further diversification of the heavily agricultural economy, and increased Kenyan participation in private enterprise. He has also vowed to fight political corruption. That could be a real challenge. Among the Kenyans who prospered mightily during Mzee's regime were members of his extensive family. Kenyatta's widow Mama Ngina, among others, amassed impressive landholdings. The father of the House sees no contradiction. "We shall build Kenya" he said, "into a single monument to the everlasting memory of our father of the nation in the living spirit he himself taught...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: A New Father | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...either solved it himself or died." No exaggeration, that. Here is how the Providence Journal-Bulletin had to answer E.M. of Cranston, R.I., who had complained that the Social Security people were giving him the runaround: "Sadly, we are writing this answer to E.M.'s widow. (See story on Page...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New York: Miss Lonelyhearts Many Times Over | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...President of Fredonia; his slogan, an eerie anticipation of Proposition 13, is "Whatever it is, I'm against it." Chico and Harpo are spies for Sylvania, a rival power. (Chico also enjoys a brief stint as a Public Nusiance in Groucho's cabinet). Margaret Dumont is a rich widow who is quite literally Groucho's biggest backer. There are millions of classic scenes in the film, including Chico's trial for treason, a war conference that evolves into a revival meeting ("I got guns, you got guns, all God's chillun got guns."), and the famous mirror sequence. Serious critics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: That's Entertainment? | 9/28/1978 | See Source »

...years, the widow of Lee Harvey Oswald has been trying to "forget the bad things." But last week, testifying for the first time in public about President Kennedy's assassin, she recounted their life together, from the day they met at a dance in Minsk to the time of his death, two days after he killed Kennedy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Facing the Bad | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

...newspaper that could just as well have used wire reports from Memphis, but for some reason wanted a man on the spot. I boarded the bus with a typewriter in one hand and a bag in the other, to be greeted by the trip leader, a 45-year-old widow who hadn't left western Massachusetts since the early '60s. She invited me to sit down next to her. I obliged, and as the bus pulled out she revealed to me a secret stash of Cokes, cheese twists, bananas and Twinkies she had brought to eat during the 24-hour...

Author: By George K. Sweetnam, | Title: Flowers for Elvis | 9/22/1978 | See Source »

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