Word: centrality
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enjoy innumerable sumptuous home-cooked meals made by myraids of motherly Cliffies. For the particularly industrious, there are room-for-service arrangements and even positions as apartment house janitors. And, just possibly, if you can persuade some psychiatrist that you are unfit for regular House life, dormitory living, and central kitchen food, you might even be allowed to live in an apartment...
...governing Nigeria for the first time in its history as a unified nation instead of a federation of four mutually suspicious parts. The Congo's Mobutu, having decreed efficiency, was having a hard time making his civil service understand what he was talking about. But in the Central African Republic, Colonel Bokassa was fast off the mark with two immediate economic reforms: he reduced the tax on bicycles and announced that the government from now on will pay for all funerals...
...universally bad news to the Communists. But not for ideological reasons; in Ghana, they despise Marxism only because it was the creed of the despised Nkrumah. The soldiers are not necessarily "conservatives." Nevertheless, they have all been eager to get on good terms with the West; in Ghana, the Central African Republic and Dahomey, they have sent home large delegations of Chinese and Russians...
...technocratic federations" are likely to sprout in the future-and the young nations should begin planning how and when they can form and join them. This would happily preserve their proud national prerogatives while offering the benefits of a large economic mass and a sharing of modern technology. The Central American Common Market has demonstrated what economic association can do for underdeveloped countries: in five years it has more than trebled the trade of its five members and set their economies to humming. LAFTA-the Latin American Free Trade Area-is finally beginning to move, and Britain is pushing...
Wall Street's tremors reverberated last week through Rome's Via Parigi, Rio's Avenida Rio Branco and Hong Kong's Queen's Road Central. With tens of thousands of non-American investors holding stakes in the U.S. stock market, foreign trading on the New York Stock Exchange rose from $5.8 billion in 1961 to $7.8 billion last year, when it accounted for more than 5% of all Big Board transactions. One reason for the market's weakness is that the foreigners have been selling. Last year they sold $409 million more than they...