THE CHINA MAIL, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1960.
LOGARLAY
Off on Safari
in AFRICA
The baboon
and Kenya -they have
THEY tell you in a tone
Fl
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NAIROBI
· LONDON
something in common
a crystallised chip of
DATELINE:
other guy what's hie, name? Nice fellows. And I'm for bath of them cais,"
Nairobi TIES ONLY,
primitive Afrlenn is unpredlet
ab He em pat a baby on the
minute and eud nime
winute carve it in two."
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i stoppest to hak at the win dow display in a shop next door Sir Ferdinand's files. ward sall: The Ideal gift."
Tethai-looking way next to kuffe deserted as Swiss Army
A SPECTACLED
SPECIMEN
A
I
The little black monkey look-
ed at me beseechingly through
the netting of the enclosure.
It
PLEASE
Three menibers of the Kenya African Nationat Union, the milliant' African Party led by Tom Mbaya, were retused the Three Bells service In resturant in Nairobi,
would
The proprietor said he not serve eustomers who were t properly dresses. They were not wearing des
Mr Mboya is one of the few members st KAN.U. who `favour lies.
The proprietor does not him- self sport an old school tv, 11 name is Sultan Ali, le is 11 Asian and he has not been within a thousand miles of Etun. A brave chap, though, don't you think? Or do you?
MR. BLUNDELL
had two perfect circles of white KICKS OUT
Blundell.
Jaily round its eyes and it was called a spectacled something or Mr Michael Blundell is the unpronounceable leader of the New Kenya Party, Nairobi is one of the sensitive by fuck, or, if you want to be Inst February's Lancaster hage other, a rare,
speckmen from India. Clutching which has a multi-racial polley conference. angry spots on the erupting face pompous, call it life.
Lo Sir Ferdinand's pitch of Arrien which could alter the Sir which is
Ferdinand
me, peering it in a tight grip round the neck opposed But, he Cavendish-
said to
Coalition Group. political Face of this world. Bentinck, heir to the Duke of over pair of Churchillian and waist wng a baby baboon. above an apology and a
Portland, former Speaker of spectacles in an office high over When the spectacled specimen With undeniable sincerity Mr who Jooks like ✪ note below a boast thatd Commonwealth neat the Legistative Council. sw the peaceful Civte Square. "We walked on all fours the haboon
are not trying to turn the elvek hung on a living under-belly. nervous Bob Boothby, told me: leader of the new Kenya coal- Nairobi is not Kenya a Truquent of what was once a
a waste of me tion movement.
back. My coalition accepts the When the spectacled specimen I think it's
notting
the the appealing to that
or Taler climbed up the fact just as London isn't Bri-old Empire pattern.
A politician by force of cir-
for help cumstances rather than drive of probably sooner-we the British baboon went too, nibbling the Government
will have no political power in rim of the spectacles affection compensation. and ambition, he speaks about tw
rival factions and groups rather Kenya. Tike
dis- a gentlerna farmer using crop pests.
tain and New York isn't America.
Perhaps
largest the don't reflect the true art and We every facet of a country. won't argue about that.
Sensitive
Bu Nairobi belongs to Kenya Just s much as Tom Mboya, The uretrial African politician leader thinks Kenya should belong to ha
11 is also, like all cities, people about 300300 of many theesh animals i soties skinnyl decorating the shop windows handbags, but others roaming the game park on the outskirts); things (hustly in solid stil concrete, bid partly in scheming and dreaming minds.
These people, these suknals. and these things — I present I have encoltered. them as
considerable variety, them in not exactly as, 1 rate them in anportance.
The juxtaposition is not neers sarily significant. It is arranged
Sommer
"What we want to do is retain Some economic power and make He has been described as "one certain that there is some kind old dhorls, Right-f compensation for the settlers, of the wing reactionary.”
especially those who were en- couraged by the Government in ne out here.
Settlers
coalition
Was
His
formed mainly to represent the inter- ests of the white settlers who thought they had been sold out by the British Government at
what will "No one can say happen after the elections next February; but make no mistake, there could be a repetition here of what happened in the Congo. Bloodshed and pillage....the
WORTHING NIGHTS
ANNE SHARPLEY,
London's top woman reporter,
talks to young people in
the town suddenly linked
with violence
【E had invented a hairstyle for himself.
HE
very startling hairstyle and
how he had the courage to wear it.
A
one wondered
On the top of his head it was short in a crew- eut-a mat-like circle about three-inches across. The rest of it hung in a very long, thin, greasy hob to his collar.
روا
He also kept his cont on
plastle imitation pig sidn, removing it only once for his picture 10
tuken, then putting it on again quickly.
This was the way he wanted to be seen, then, Conformasin made blu take off the coat for the picture, but the inher image he had of himself, bulking and surly, by the soft-drinks bar, his hair-style striking awe, his mariner guarded, colled, ready to spring into action-had to be quickly restored.
I was Monday night, the emptiest night of the work, No Jazz band only the juke box, in the fatty sea-front "Panorame"
its danco hall Worthing which he is mistaken- ly under the impression, is the only place he go to at nights, "untess you mean the Waldorf coffee bar, or the pictures,"
Philosophical
He is philosophical about recent events in Worthing and his friend Valerie's part them.
sha?" Glis very nice, didn't asked her friend Ann Dawkins. She agreed that Valerie always dressed right.
Between the jukebox and the coffee machine sils *2 young wife. Her baby will be born in the New Year but she is caught by this place, as they all are.
"My husband would go mad He's if he knew I was here. working lule. I get fed up on my own." Round her eyes are the thick binck pencillings that af showing she are her way. helangs despite the baby only a Itw months away.
Like jewels
Clasped together in the Spanish Morocco Corner they kiss the way they have seen it done on the pictures...
ately. The baboon is growing than its Caster seven times carrier. Who will carry who in a, few months?
Deals, TV's animal Armand authority, did not point out the obvious political comparison, Neither did I.
round He was showing me the private zoo in the grounds of his house near Nairobi,
He said. "I try to keep out of politics though it's not easy I prefer the world of the here.
animals, who at least only kill for necessity. I am strongly against killing for thrills."
Fs wife Michuelo, who is now appearing with him and a host « animals on the TV screens of 22 countries, said: "We loathe and despise big game huning. Killing any animals or birds is degrading. How can you call it sport? You know what I would du I'd make the man who kills an elephan! eat the poor thing down to the fast bone- maggots and all.
"Hunger is the only excuse for killing. Yes, I'm vege- Marian, but my husband isn't. He's a carnivore,"
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She managed to get the word out withent choking.
'LADY C's
DAUGHTER'
The bookshop in one of The main Nairobi streets dis- played a frightening collection of American paper-backs with titles like "Lust is n Must," and "Call Girl Mother,"
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Displayed separately was one utled "Lady Chatterley's Daughter," described as cartoon life story of the modern American lemate who knows and does more about being a woman than a certain Ilerury Judy ever dreamed of."
The assistant told me: 'I'm waiting for copies of the real thing from England. I've had 50 inquiries this morning."
mer-
He was an Indian like most of the shopkeepers and chants in Nairobi. He sounded ike Peter Sellers und looked as though he were puzzled by Western reading tastes.
I STOOD at a street corner lu Nairobi 3,000-odd feel above sea level not a hundred miles from the Equator The Borough Youth Officer,
with the mid-day greased curls, stay interlocked for long minutes.
Mr A. Glynn Owen, says that in sun drying out my British bones "We come here seven nights a recent survey it was found with 85 degrees of heat; and a week." they say.
that "more than 60 per cent of looked incredulously at a travel wiilch showtó But Just as you had to have a the young people in Worthing agency poster Bright, elvar, starting young pair of lovers in the corner, so are members of youth organisa-a pretty girl against a cloudless
The youth organisations aky and comanded; "Come a back you had to have tough talk over tlons," out of eyes, caping
Blackpool. teem, in fact, in Worthing. ground of black, like Jewels in the bar.
"I've discussed things like a velvet jewelcase. She resented, one sensed, the slick-up," says the plump boy baby, and the running of the behind the bar, known, true to She cowboy TV serial tradition, as house and growing up. wanteri to be back in this Tiny. empty, umber-coloured dream- Janet,
in
A
"Just one of them fings," he says, a though it couldn't be helped. "Used to work wiv her at a paper mmufacturers. Pretty docent kid."
On the walls were daubed the poor lletion of dreams a
'Deadly'
girls' roo
bit of deseri, n stretch of deep They all agree that Worthing
No cuddling
There
Was
VOTE? opera, NO THANKS!
Louts
to
air at
drama, archeology. astrology, harriera,
Only
Armstrong "But you've gotta get or swimming psychology, go-karl-
gets ing, visits to Sussex churches, could have done It. He is now underneath the cheap gnised. Anybody who
tennis, quiz
visiting Kenya with his bandi on Loble
a two-monta tour of Africa trellin spangled with fairylights away way it, good luck to them, rambling.
Anyone who don't. Gawd 'elp competitions. and inled vine leaves,
"This town for its size has sponsored by the United States facilities Information Service. He gave She wanted to conform, as them."
recreationsi more of them conformed.
of The rest
That's it, man, you made a
his three per- than any other comparable the last baby
non blg impression. The Wan
admiring agreement,
town," says Mr' Glynn Owen, formances in the open conformism
At the shining Youth Head- Mitchell Park. quarters, like the Panoramo, The acoustics were echoing Monday is a quiet night. One appallingly. A jet plane scream- couple quicksteps determinedly | ed
overhead occasionally. A So the sheriff took one of them blue sea, toppling red-tiled
la "deadly" for young peuple. to Room with a View.
trainn a nearby shunling yard house or two, a few palm trees Throw it in the sca." "Worthing A giri teles on an Elizabelhań lot of steam loudly and accom-- in, so what?
high- A dream la where people come to le costume for a forthcoming pro panted his notos with The 15-year-old giri ealled Spanish Morocco? "Tags"
of Canada In the other and don't." has mollier
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who visin
duction of A Room In the pitched whistles, thinks so musel of her that she corner. A few stretches of sub- They would like, they say- Tower.
briak, The warden is a marcasite marine life (goggling angel fish, an her cross to wear on a silver chain sea-lurses) Intervened between "another dance hall some thing bright-eyed ez-pardener who he docan't allow any and marcasite heart-shaped the two.
us this, only better," "nonetting saya ring.
like the London Palladiuers where enddiing hare. you get all edg stara.”
The lights are bright, the NONE of them appears to parquet floor is clean and fiere 16-year-old hair- khow or is willing to seknow- pre posters for Dream of Geron-working fur the Government. established by these items, for dresser, and her 18-year-old, ledge the existence of, the hand- tius on the wall. her friend's look enviously a boy friend Brian are clasped some 49,009 borough-built youthCan you understand youth
bas bought
"She also gave me this other
4
ring. They're all silver," зауа
Gl, whose superiority is clearly
Interlocked
Απτι, 11
amusement
arcade,"
together in the Spanish Morocco headquarters (or the plans for hanging around on street corners them.
They Her assessment of Valerie is corner.
kim the way building two more, even bigger) and coffee bare when they end on the pictures. braed on similar values. "She they've seen
Nor do they admit, knowing, come here?” asks, the warden. puffed-out half the 80 or so Church-connected" No." I answered, iring, translate Lisad to wear
tight Her blonde white jeans, Sho always dresses style, ami his heavily, darkly youth clubs,
But Loule just grinned, woved that handkerchief, and poured his Bouthern soul-plus rogen- mentinto his hotn, Louls and horn triumphed.
Ho said to me afterwards; Man, they keep saying I'm But I keep saying I'm sirletly a horn player, I just don't "dig politics,
Sure I knew about the pres dential election. But, I didn't vole, I've met Nixon and the
British and
CLEW
Woman dies 77
minutes while heart is repaired
A
37-YEAR-OLD woman was sitting up
in
bed in hospital recently after an operation in which she "died" for an hour and 17 minutes.
"We must come to terms with The operation, carried out at will be put on the market after the Africans, try to understand the Royal City of Dublin Hos- it has been given thorough technique Lests in future heart operations." them, and work with them, used a new even get used to the idea of which may represent a break-
under them, Then through in the Beld of heart sur working when they take over, as they pery. inevitably must, they might give us a square deal.
"They
Swahili
might not, of course; But they It's an act of faith, will certainly kick us out if we don't co-operate now,"
The woman's heart was
The slopped for
maximum medical scien- time which, tists belleve, is possible without actual death.
A seven-man team of Irish sungeons and technicians carried uut the six-hour operation.
But they had spent more than ago.n
year on research during cultivated which operations and tests were and his gift of carried out on 112 dogs.
Mr Blundell came to Kenya from Yorkshire 35 years Since then he has asparagus oratory,
Both have been profitable- to date.
Tapped off
Formerly the patient's body was cooled to the point of suspended animation by means of loe baths.
Under the new system the blood is tapped near the heart. steel con- passed through tainer where it is cooled by lee water, and then returned to the patient's blood system by the femur artery,
At the point of suspended animation the heart censés to beat, the brain stops working. and the patient appears to be
dead.
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No blood is circulated to the brain or heart and the surgeon, has a dry feld in which to Uhuru is the word on every One member of the team
operate, "We' have produced The woman
patient was suffering from heart. con- dition caused by rheumatic fever. Doctors gave her not more than Ave years to live.
Bul one said: "She is now making the progress and has a full life ahend of her."
African's lips and chalked on said:
ollier wall, It is ela new cooling system under overy Swahill word for "Independence, which the body temperature is Freedom."
lowered to 63 degrees Fahren- incidentally the Swahli be-heit, the point of suspended
which I bought animation. ginner's book
"The cooling system is being my first verb gives
patented by the team of medical "Kupliga-1o beat or strike."
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melt
"To think he actually
it
Likes
of carrying it!"
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