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...tutoring done, were ready. In 1957 Sir Abubakar stepped in as Nigeria's first Prime Minister, to prepare the nation for full freedom. Last October 1, as drums rumbled, guns blared and exuberant citizens gleefully shuffled through the high-life dance, Nigeria's green and white banner rose over Lagos in place of the Union Jack...
...have marched under many a banner bearing a strange device, from the "Don't Tread on Me" serpent of the American Revolution to the three-headed elephant of Laos. This year 18 new flags were unfurled by the emergent nations of Africa and the Mediterranean. Cyprus boasts the first national flag bearing a map. Mali is the first to emblazon its colors with a human ideogram, employing an ancient African symbol of a man with arms raised to heaven and feet planted firmly on earth, signifying attachment to religion and the soil...
Second Thoughts. Influenced less by the actual votes counted than by the projections of the TV computers, headline writers across the country splashed KENNEDY WINS across early front pages. At 2:04 a.m., the usually cautious New York Times declared Kennedy "elected" in an eight-column banner over the lead story by Washington Bureau Chief James ("Scotty") Reston, called to New York for the occasion. The edition was hardly on the street, however, when the Times high command, including President Orvil E. Dryfoos, took a worried look at the eroding Kennedy margin, gathered in emergency conference and hurriedly decided...
...Throughout the land, the black banner lines on the morning editions all read: KENNEDY! At 7 o'clock, John Kennedy crossed the 30 million mark-some 750,000 votes in the lead. Kennedy had 50.71% of the popular vote, Nixon 49.29%. It was the closest election since 1888, when Democrat Grover Cleveland edged Republican Benjamin Harrison in the popular vote but lost to him in the Electoral College...
...were gone, and Patrice Lumumba's Red-lining advisers had been sent packing, but now a new foreign force was at work in the confused Congo. It was that of Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, whose fervent hope is to rally an entire continent behind his Pan-African banner...