Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...richest slice of Africa over which Britain still has a measure of control, the federation, which is larger than Britain, France, Holland and Germany combined, was founded in 1953 by welding the protectorates of Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia to the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia. The Central Africa Federation (pop. 7,450,000) is the world's second largest exporter of copper, fourth largest of tobacco-a land dotted with modern cities and rich in asbestos, coal, lithium, chrome and cobalt. But in the stretch of the Zambesi River Valley, soon to be flooded by the Kariba...
...Agitate Until . . ." It is in Nyasaland, the poorest region of all, that the cry is loudest. Though the Nyasas benefit most from the federation (for every pound sterling they pay to the central government, they get back two in subsidies), they look with horror at the example of more prosperous Southern Rhodesia, where a kind of apartheid exists and the blacks are plagued by pass laws. curfews, and even segregated phone booths. Stirring up the Nyasas' restiveness is Dr. Hastings K. Banda, the prosperous physician who returned last summer from a self-imposed exile in London to campaign...
...Antonio last week, Physiologist Robert T. Clark reported to the Second International Symposium on the Physics and Medicine of the Atmosphere and Space (see SCIENCE) that a valuable lesson has been learned from the Indians at Morococha (pop. 8,500), a mining town in Peru's central Andean highlands...
...Central America, that were discovered by a Peabody Museum expedition (see, color). Like the vast majority of items on display, they 'could not be called "beautiful" in any ordinary sense of the term. But, as Fine Arts Director Perry Rathbone pointed out in the exhibition catalogue, "beauty has become only one province...
RAILROAD MERGER is under discussion by five New England roads: Bangor & Aroostook, Boston & Maine, Maine Central, Rutland Railway, New York, New Haven & Hartford. They want to cut costs of parallel operations, set up ninth biggest U.S. road with some 5,300 miles of track, $900 million of assets...