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Mboya is firmly committed to a land-reform program that would split up the idle portions of large estates, but not to the wholesale expulsion of Europeans from the 12,700 sq. mi. of white highlands. "We must treat land as a national asset, encourage African ownership and cooperatives where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Ready or Not | 3/7/1960 | See Source »

Danger No. 1 is what Herter called "war by miscalculation" - the possibility, for example, that one side might try to launch a surprise attack in a mistaken belief that the other side was preparing one. To guard against the miscalculation danger, the U.S. is working toward "safe guards against surprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: An International Armed Force? | 2/29/1960 | See Source »

Tender Little Bull. Caracas-born Simon ("The Liberator") Bolivar was the country's first military dictator; he said that "as long as our fellow citizens do not acquire the talents and virtues which distinguish our brothers to the north, a radical democratic system, far from being good for us...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VENEZUELA: Old Driver, New Road | 2/8/1960 | See Source »

The amplifier is made by a new technique called molecular electronics. Westinghouse treats the molecules of germanium or silicon crystals in such a way that different parts of the same tiny block acquire different electrical properties. These "domains" and the "interfaces" between them act like the components of complicated electronic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Educated Crystals | 2/1/1960 | See Source »

In the Belgian Congo, young King Baudouin arrived on a hastily planned flight from Brussels to see for himself what could be salvaged from Belgium's tattered colonial policy. Until last week Minister of the Congo Auguste de Schrijver clung fiercely to the line that the Belgian Congo Africans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bumps in Freedom Road | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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