Word: central
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chengting, 150 miles southwest of Peking, students actually staged a march on the capital, and party officials had to cajole them into returning to their classes. In Harbin students have flatly refused to attend standard Communist lectures on "collective life, political theories and central guidance," i.e., party rule...
...east in race-conscious Kenya, elected Africans are taking their seats for the first time in the governing councils of the white man, though only as a minority. In central Africa, just to the south, in a desperate race against time, the blacks, whites and Asians of British Rhodesia and Nyasaland are trying to learn how to submerge their differences in a common federation, and experimenting with graduated extension of the franchise so that the outnumbered whites can maintain their dominance. Paced by the British, with the frightening memory of yesterday's Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya to spur...
...Kenya and the other volcanoes of the east. In its deepest clefts lie Africa's great lakes: Nyasa, Tanganyika and Lake Albert, with Lake Victoria, second in size only to North America's Lake Superior, on the high plateau near by. On either side of the great central rift, Middle Africa's land stretches out in vast monotonous terraces that drop in sudden sharp steps from 6,000 ft. to the level of the sea like the tiered bastions of some huge island fortress. Its rivers meander in wide swings and detours on their path...
...Patience," says seasoned Colonial Hand Lord Malvern, former Prime Minister of the Central African Federation, "is essential; gradualness is absolutely necessary." But in newly awakened Middle Africa, there is little desire for patience. Of the many lessons the African has learned from his white masters, some.good, some bad, one at least is that of the excitement of hurry. Today, in a continent-wide parody of the threatening game of childhood, encouraged by his masters, egged on by his more intemperate playmates, the African child is standing up in his cradle and shouting aloud to the world: "Coming, ready...
...Noyes house, set in a pine grove just above a brook, harks back to Greek and Roman town houses, built around a central patio. Designed to accommodate a family that includes four children aged four to 16, a squirrel, a rabbit, two French poodles, a parakeet and two ring-necked doves, the house is, says Noyes, "a very hard-boiled piece of architecture." It is basically two houses set in a rectangle formed by side walls of fieldstone and glass. Carried out in a strict modular pattern (columns and girders joining at 11-ft. intervals), the design provides for living...