Whites Draw Tout Line in Kenya Battle
In Kenya’s highlands 1950s style confrontation unfolds as Group Capt. Llewellyn Briggs outlines a political standstill until Africans prove governance capacity while extremist Jim Hughes curses colonial change and Tom Mboya pushes land reform and an early 1962 independence timetable amid mixed white and Black responses.
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Jim Hughes
Kenya
Hughes
Airobi
Equator
Llewellyn R. Briggs
Royal Air Force
Briggs
United Party
Africa
America
Pery
Kenya Federation of Labor
Mboya
Congo
Tom Mboya
Kenya Highlands
Cedar and
Stone Oase
Library's New Books Range From Dolls to Judo
New library titles on dolls house furniture judo photography stage scenery and home movies join guides on basketball track and field volleyball and painting. Several works cover architecture plants theater and crafts while others address sports bowling and garden design.
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Public Library
Gee
Harrington
Henle and Kinzer
Gillette
Architectural Record
Knight
Meissner
Breanahan
Maynard
Jacobs
Scharff
Welch
Joan Miro
Erben
Foley
Blesh
Rockwell
Grayson
Hughes
Holt
Pullman
Winchell Tour Notes Rushed Trip Canceled Ike Visit
Walter Winchell and crew recount anxiously following Eisenhower’s Tokyo trip as a potential assassination threat loomed amid palace omens and a nervous press corps. The Manila stopover saw joyous crowds and Secret Service vigilance while a Tokyo cancellation shifted plans to present a Runyon Fund gift to Japan’s cancer researchers.
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Tokyo
Ike
Manila
University of Japan
Buffalo blocks U S 101 near Nipomo in surprise incident
Callers apologetic report a buffalo on the U S 101 freeway at Nipomo with traffic halted. Patrols hurry to the scene and the buffalo, angry and deliberate, refuses to move until it jumps a fence as its owner Jay Doty and his small herd try to corral it.
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Santa Maria
Calif
State Highway Patrol
U.S. 101
Nipomo
Jay Doty
Instant Sweet Potato Flakes Advance From Research
U S Department of Agriculture researchers report instant sweet potato flakes mimic fresh flavor and color. The flakes, made like instant potato flakes, rehydrate in 60 seconds for mashed potatoes or pie filling. Further development and a pilot plant in New Orleans is planned for the fall crop, delaying commercial availability.
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AMES
U.S. Department of Agriculture
New Orleans
Department Eyes Instant Flakes for Consumer Tests
The department plans to produce enough instant flakes for consumer testing, likely later this year or early in 1961.
Grandfather's Stone Falls Killing Girl in Swiss Cemetery
Marie Claude Gross rider a nine year old girl dies after a heavy tombstone collapses at a Swiss cemetery while she and her sister place flowers on their grandfather's grave. The accident occurred in DOMDIDIER Switzerland according to AP dispatch.
Roman Bath Ruins Found In Nile Delta
Excavators led by Prof. Kazimierz Michalowski uncover Roman baths atop Pharaonic remains at Tel Athrib in the Nile Delta near Benha. The site yields public baths with Corinthian marble columns and a red granite fountain basin, plus an earlier 26th Dynasty basement and a King Amassis depository.
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Cairo
UPI
Tel Athrib
Athribis
Benha
Nile Delta
Egypt
Michalowsky
Italy
Asia Minor
Amassis
Eggs Laid While You Wait Ad Appears in Fairplay Paper
A Fairplay Flame advertisement proclaims fast service with eggs laid while you wait, signaling a novelty or humorous promo in FAIRPLAY COLORADO. The item captures local humor and the era’s small town newspaper style.
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Fairplay
Colo
Chihuahua placed in a bird cage during floor waxing
Mrs. Frank McKnight of Memphis keeps her tiny Chihuahua in a bird cage each time she waxes the floors, a quirky household ritual noted by neighbors.
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Memphis
UPI
Frank McKnight
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South Africa
Tom ‘Mboya
Nairobi
Freddie Yowell
Walter Winchell
Yorktown
Formosa
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Manila News
Linda Rogers
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Richard Dudman
Dadman
Yoshida
U.S. Secret Service
Secret Service
U.S
Carlos Romulo
Pal
Philippines Congress
D! Scholls
Krall
2Nd Ave
Iowa
Victor
Olympia Typewriters
Iowa Typewriter CO
Kazimierz Michalowsky
Doctors’ Hospital
Bond Dept
Savings and Loan
Des Moines
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