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...hear Governor Munoz Marin talk about it, Puerto Rico, which became a commonwealth in 1952, is just getting started. As he says, when asked where Puerto Rico goes from here: "Man, we are not even here...
...chain of army mutinies that rocked East Africa like an earthquake had its epicenter in Zanzibar, where bloody revolution sent shock waves rumbling up and down the Great Rift. Before the aftershocks subsided, the British Commonwealth governments of Tanganyika, Uganda and Kenya had been severely shaken...
Volpe said he will wage the most energetic fight for the Republican cause in the Commonwealth's history. He assured reporters that he would "use a great deal more shoe leather" this campaign...
...though a noisy section of the population is strongly in favor of it. Prime Minister Winston Field urges that "on no account must we put ourselves in the wrong" by breaching the Constitution, under which the territory is still tied to Britain as a self-governing member of the Commonwealth. But Southern Rhodesia, lacking large-scale mineral deposits and heavily dependent on agriculture, is economically depressed and many of its 224,000 white settlers are emigrating, mostly to neighboring South Africa. Many of the remainder seem to be enthusiastically hoping for a political comeback by Sir Roy Welensky as Rhodesia...
...during the 1930s the guards' first chore mornings was spinning the turnstile to build up fictitious attendance. But in the past decade the Tate has pulled ahead fast, and now, under the direction of Sir John Rothenstein, it is the largest and liveliest art museum in the British Commonwealth...