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Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta took a harsher line. In the shade of a wild fig tree near Nakuru, where the 11th Battalion of his Kenya Rifles had mutinied, a military tribunal sorted out sheep from goats. Each of 500 suspects was trotted out at British bayonet point, briefly but intensely quizzed, then adjudged either "black" (an active, armed mutineer), "grey" (doubtful) or "white." (Worried about the color code's racial implications, the tribunal first tried a red-green-yellow system but found it too confusing.) All told, the tribunal tagged 100 black sheep. Kenyatta promised...
They were wrong. Driving toward the Jan. 11th runoff election, McKeithen, 45, a lawyer-farmer from the small town of Columbia, fell back on the Southern office seeker's tried-and-true technique for getting votes: he ran on the race issue. Although he had al ways before been considered a moderate on race, he now charged that Morrison had made a "deal" with the N.A.A.C.P. for the Negro vote. "Without question," he cried of the first primary, "98% of the colored vote went to Mr. Morrison." To a New Orleans rally he declared: "The only things that increased...
...green and pleasant town of Westham in Sussex last week, the Rev. Harold Coulthurst performed one of the rarest of Anglican ceremonies: rehallowing an altar. Rehallowing was required because several days before, four men had been surprised while in the midst of a mysterious ritual inside Westham's 11th century church of St. Mary the Virgin. "The men were trying to communicate with evil spirits," declared Coulthurst. "They were chanting some sort of mumbo jumbo. They were definitely in league with the devil...
...Kennedy's entry into politics came in 1946, when he ran successfully for the House from the 11th Massachusetts Congressional District, which included East Boston, Charlestown. Somerville, Cambridge, and Harvard. He served three terms...
...frock-coat dress, his stentorian manner of speech and his shaggy haircut. Connally got his law degree at the University of Texas, practiced in Marlin, Texas, and served two terms in the state legislature. In 1916 he won the congressional seat from Texas' 11th district...