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...Ghana began life with high hopes that Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and his ruling party would show enough statesmanship to win the cooperation of the minorities in Ashanti and the Northern Territories. But the richer, more highly educated Ashantis, controlling the country's one big cash crop (cocoa), have agitated so articulately for upcountry rights that Nkrumah's less literate supporters, unable to talk them down, have resorted to highhanded repression. By the most arbitrary of these measures the government deported two Ashanti Moslem leaders on the ground that their presence was "not conducive to the public good...
...cordial, busy five-day visit by approving a joint Brazil-Chile commission to establish South America's first common market between the two countries. A practical basis for the reciprocal market already exists: Brazil buys Chile's nitrates and Chile needs Brazil's coffee and cocoa. The committee starts work in 60 days on a draft treaty. Said Chile's President Carlos Ibanez: "If we succeed, your visit will be a landmark for a new economic organization for all the countries of Latin America...
...rocket fever here," said the manager of the Starlite Motel in Cocoa Beach, Fla. one day last week. "Everything centers on the Cape. We look at it and live with it every day." The Cape is Cape Canaveral, home of the Air Force missile test center, and the everyday facts of life of nearby Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne, Rockledge and Titusville-on Florida's east coast-probably have no parallel anywhere else in the world...
Getting Results. As the 27th year of the Era of Trujillo neared an end, the strongman was still working a seven-day week and still getting results. The gross national product in 1956 was well over $500 million. Exports last year (mainly sugar, coffee, cocoa) reached a record high of $126.5 million. Imports in 1956 were held to $108.3 million, leaving a trade surplus of $18.2 million. The record 1957 budget, nicely balanced at $131.5 million, will buy more schools, hospitals and roads...
...Nevada, the British H-bomb tests on Christmas Island in the Pacific-and Cape Canaveral was about to put on the most up-to-date performance of them all. Would it be the first test of the Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile? Or one of the little ones? Near Cocoa, Cocoa Beach, Melbourne and Rockledge, the lady watchers came out on the public beaches munching picnic lunches, and casually waited for the answer...