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Unity Road is a sensible vision conceived by Mehdi ben Barka. bright-eyed young (37) president of Morocco's Consultative Assembly. Brought to the U.S. by the State Department last March to see whatever he wanted, Ben Barka did not succumb to the common delusion that the U.S. is a chrome-spun nation so rich that its experience can have no relevance to the problems of other peoples. He took a look at Manhattan and Washington. D.C., but was more particularly interested in Arizona's irrigated cotton fields and in Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap," the imaginative...
Back home again, Ben Barka began casting about for suitable self-help projects, soon thought of the rugged Rif mountains, which form a natural barrier between North and South Morocco and until last year marked the boundary between the French and Spanish zones of occupation. Following the classic policy of divide and rule, the two occupying powers had left the central Rif roadless and virtually impassable. One thing Morocco could do, decided Ben Barka, was to build a road through...
...Istiqlal Leader Mehdi ben Barka insisted that the Istiqlal had been planning the coup for weeks as part of its policy of agrarian reform and "researching the origin of wealth acquired by traitors." Though the Sultan had temporarily managed to claim leadership of the move, the ominous fact was that the Istiqlal had not bothered to let the Sultan know its plans -indicating a split between the Istiqlal's zealous progressives and the Sultan's slower modernism...
...Mitchell 11 and L. J. Moore Sp gained a length's decision over J. O. Bangs '25, and J. P. Whittall '25 in the mile double sculls event. The time was 5 minutes 54 seconds. The second heat resulted in a tie between R. H. Barka low 1G, and J. R. Conover '23, and R. F. Brander '23 and F. J. Wells '23. The two shells kept well together throughout the mile stretch and crossed the line in a dead heat...