Word: centrals
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia (TIME, Feb. 24), the move was based on a hardheaded political calculation. Todd's own party, the Southern Rhodesian division of the United Federal Party, decided that Todd's vigorous advocacy of racial "partnership" between blacks and whites in the Central Africa Federation (Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland) had alienated white voters...
...that Red China talked of, but had not got it. They had expected that Washington would cripple Djakarta by freezing all Indonesian funds in the U.S. until the fighting was over; they hoped for cooperation from the U.S.-owned oilfields in cutting off revenues to the central government; they thought that raising the standard of anti-Communist revolt would bring quick support from all anti-Communist nations and from other regions of Indonesia. None of their calculations worked out-only North Celebes joined them in their uprising against Sukarno. Their most serious mistake was a tactical one: they had been...
...shaggy men of the Old Stone Age had their industrial centers too, and one of them was in central Tanganyika, Africa. Last week Anthropologist F. Clark Howell of the University of Chicago told about extracting thousands of stone tools from what was once a lake bed in the Southern Highlands. The site was discovered in 1951 by a Johannesburg school principal, but not much was done about it until last summer when Dr. Howell arrived with a small expedition (his wife and two graduate students) and hired 35 natives at $1.50 a week...
...Eyre's grandfather developed the South America trade for W.R. Grace and Company, and built up the Grace Line, which is to South America what the United Fruit Company is to Central America. "Me? I haven't the slightest inclination to go into the business. But if it came right down to it, of course I would if I could...
...central problem of Roofs is that Clair, in an attempt to create figures of unmistakable humanity, forgot to make them sufficiently funny or fascinating. They are often mysterious, but that is not the same thing. The hero is a street-singer--and a good one--but even a good street-singer can command undivided attention for only half an hour...