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...leave for home, hearty holiday farewells at the final cocktail parties replaced the loud bickering of debate. What with the greatest assemblage of world leaders in modern history and the admission of 17 new member nations, the General Assembly's go-day session had been the noisiest and busiest on record. It also marked a change in the character of the U.N. itself...
...Doves. Since Valparaiso already had FAA certification as an air taxi service, Superior did not need a certificate to fly scheduled routes. While the striking pilots do not have the planes to compete with Southern on all routes, they hope to damage Southern by skimming the cream off the busiest routes...
...World. It was in the North too that Nigeria's written history began-in the walled-caravan center of Kano, whose chronicles date back to A.D. 960 and whose big, modern airport today is one of the world's busiest. For coastal Nigeria the ages passed without written record until the late 15th century, when Portuguese adventurers sailed and marched up the creeks to Benin, whose 16th and 17th century bronzes (some of which depict Portuguese traders) are now among Africa's most treasured art objects. To the Portuguese-and the English who eventually displaced them-Nigeria...
...Bombay, the biggest of India's dry cities, a dead animal in someone's front yard is a tipoff that a still is in operation: the odor of the decaying animal helps kill the smell of hops. Illegal brewing is said to be India's "busiest cottage industry," and every new tin roof is taken as evidence that its owner has supplemented his income by engaging in the liquor trade. India's gangsters, called goondas, glory in such names as The Black Panther, rub out their rivals not with tommy guns but with iron rods, bicycle...
...years, one of Africa's busiest agitators was a dapper French Camerounese medical doctor named Felix-Roland Mou-mié. In 1955, at the age of 29, he privately wrote Vyacheslav Molotov: "If ever I succeed in taking power in my country, I assure you I will build a socialist republic." But he indignantly denied that he was a Communist, described himself as no more than a pious Presbyterian. He was a familiar of the U.N.'s corridors, arguing that only he represented the will of the French Cameroun people. He turned up in Moscow, was always welcomed...