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Before dawn one day last week, a detachment of Kenya cops, supported by armored cars, marched into Pumwani, a filth-strewn warren where a large part of Nairobi's 60-odd thousand Kikuyu somehow find space to live. Dragged from their mud huts, 20,000 Kukes were herded into compounds; 2,500 suspected Mau Mau terrorists were culled from among them and clapped into jail. Next day there were more arrests; another 3,500 "suspects" were seized near Thika...
...stuff"), Virgie Goodbye, Gin Wedding, Love-Hungry Doctor, Private Life of a Street Girl, She Made It Pay. Pocket-size reprints, the committee said, "originally started out as cheap reprints of standard works, have largely degenerated into a medium for the dissemination of artful appeals to sensuality, immorality, filth, perversion and degeneracy...
Dirty Corners. Despite the four weeks of testimony, neither the committee nor witnesses were always sure of the difference between obscenity and respectable writing. Writer Margaret Culkin Banning decried "filth on the newsstand," said that more than 1,000 magazines published in the U.S. are nothing more than "pictorial prostitution." Three days later the committee discovered that Writer Banning herself was the author of an article titled "Is Virginity Old-Fashioned?" (her answer: no), which appeared in Personal Romance flanked by such other titles as "Kidnaper's Kisses," "I Was Accused of Adultery" and "Betrayed...
...when his own left-wing party fell apart, Sartre, the philosopher of the existential, was left in the position of his hero Hugo: pure but ineffectual. Apparently Sartre still yearned to be a man of action. Last week in Vienna, Philosopher Sartre was up to his elbows in the filth if not the blood of Communist politics...
Oxford-educated Patrick Duncan, 34, is the son of the first South African to be appointed Governor General, the late Sir Patrick Duncan. He hobbled into the location's filth-laden alleys supported by Manilal Gandhi, 60-year-old son of the patron saint of all passive resisters: Mahatma Gandhi. Both men wore the yellow, green and black rosette of the African National Congress (A.N.C.), which preaches racial justice but deplores the violent solutions of its Communist outriders...