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...Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, O.B.E., K.B.E., is federal Nigeria's first Prime Minister, who now says, "There is no threat to unity at all. We solved that problem a long time ago." His words are echoed by every important politician, giving the lie to the theory that backward African nations inevitably must suffer the chaos of a Congo when the blacks take over...
...away from the man he intends to cover, always shading to one side so that the receiver will have only one clear path. At the snap of the ball, the two men start a routine as formal yet as frantic as a minuet in oldtime flicker films. Running backward all the while, Patton must counter the receiver's maneuvers without falling for a fake. To avoid head, arm and hip fakes. Patton watches a spot roughly in the vicinity of the receiver's wishbone, on the sound theory that it will turn when the receiver himself turns...
...being built higher by the boom in new books. The rise of corporation training programs, the new leisure for adult study in night school and correspondence courses has created a growing textbook market for adult education. Educational concern for special opportunity for the gifted child-and the unusually backward-has meant a proliferation of textbooks on the same subject at different levels. Holt now has four college freshman mathematics texts replacing what was once a single staple freshman algebra. From teaching electronic computers what to do man is learning new ways to teach himself: Doubleday and Harcourt this year published...
Africa must seek a reintegration with its own culture, he said. Quoting one African politician, he added, "Our duty is to usher in an era of backward movement. Only intelligent retrogression can save our country...
...much supranational moonshine. De Gaulle's alternative is a confederation of sovereign states whose premiers would hammer out common policy at regular meetings. "A Europe of fatherlands" is the way he sees it. To nearly all the advocates of European unity, this simply seemed a discouraging step backward toward the old-fashioned ententes and alliances of the past...