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...Voice of Kenyatta. Tom's high school days ended when his father could no longer afford to help with the fees. But this shock was to give him his political start. He took a free, three-year public-health course in Nairobi to qualify as a sanitation inspector with the city government, and began slipping off to hear the fiery political speeches of Jomo ("Burning Spear") Kenyatta, the famed Kikuyu leader. As a city official, Tom Mboya noted bitterly, his job paid $30 a month for work that brought white inspectors $140, and the whites drove official cars...
...marauding Mau Mau gangs began darting out of the Aberdare hills to slaughter white farmers and hack their cattle to death, and the government declared a national emergency. It is generally agreed that Mboya played no part in the savage three-year revolt. But he had been an active member of Kenyatta's Kenya African Union...
...principal), he found the colleges jammed with returning veterans, turned to clerking in Safeway and Woolworth stores, eventually became a tool buyer for the Hudson Bay Co. department store. When he was appearing in an amateur production of Naughty Marietta, the Toronto Conservatory heard of him, gave him a three-year scholarship. But Vickers, who had a horror of becoming "another run-of-the-mill radio singer," decided after eight years that he would go back into business. "The press always said, Mr. Vickers gave his usual fine performance,' and I knew I was on the way down...
COPPER-STRIKE pact was agreed upon by Anaconda Co. and the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, ending a 177-day walkout. Anaconda's settlement all but ended the strike, which shut down 80% of the industry. The three-year contract provides 4,785 Anaconda workers with hourly wage boosts from...
...leading voice of the blue-chip U.S. business community this week tackled an issue that politicians must face in the 1960 presidential campaign (TIME, Jan. 25). After a three-year study, the Committee for Economic Development (180 top executives and educators) concluded: "Where the decentralized system cannot provide good schools, federal aid to education is an urgent necessity...