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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Michael Blundell, 53, bluff, Yorkshire-born farmer, is the closest thing to a liberal leader in Kenya today. Thirty-five years ago, he turned down the chance of a legal career in England after school (Wellington), and with ?100 and a shotgun made his way to Kenya to work as a farmer. Today Blundell's 1,200 acres of asparagus, pyrethrum and dairy-cattle land, in the lovely Subukia hills about 70 miles northwest of Nairobi, are so prosperous that he can devote most of his time to public affairs...
...show, however alluring, must cause qualms: Can a world, neither flesh, fish nor fowl and at the same time quite palpably all three, remain vaultingly alive within theater walls, seem superbly demented in three sober dimensions? It turns out that to a notable degree, it can. For one thing, there is much of Thurber that snugly fits a kind of intimate revue. The Unicorn in the Garden and If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox are made-to-order blackout skits; The Night the Bed Fell is a natural recitation piece; Walter Mitty's secret visions make fine capsule...
...dying mother in 1956. Daughter of a baker and a junior at New York University, Carol insists that she will not cash in on her hard-earned skill as the world's finest skater. Said she: "I want to think about the next dance as the most important thing in my future...
...nature, the U.S. is an underdog in Olympic hockey. Its team is a sometime thing, a pickup squad of former college stars who have retained enough interest in the game to stay in shape and to steal necessary time away from their careers. The Russians are more organized: their team is the cream of the most professional amateur hockey leagues in the world. So are the Canadians, by instinct and circumstance the world's best hockey players, who can draw their team from a galaxy of highly organized postgraduate amateur leagues...
Principle of the Thing. In Spokane, Wash., on his way to jail for drunkenness, one resourceful man noticed parading pickets of striking city workers, dug a union button out of his pocket, cried: "I can't cross the picket line...