Word: controls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last year's elections, and Oopa, 63, became Premier of Polynesia. Oopa accused the French of allowing the islands' copra-and-phosphate economy to stagnate in the face of a population explosion that has doubled the population (to 70,000) in 25 years. Hoping to win greater control over an economy dominated by French and Chinese businessmen, he pushed through an unheard-of income tax. A shopkeepers' strike and the fury of well-organized rioters, who stoned the Territorial Assembly building, forced its repeal...
...recruited 220 pilots, replacing those who walked off in a body one day, include six Americans, 21 West Germans, 40 from Communist countries, and 100 Egyptians. They have worked well. By way of improvement, Younis hopes to install radar, walkie-talkies for pilots, and eventually closed-circuit TV to control headquarters ashore. He also talks of building a smaller canal paralleling the present one, to facilitate passing. All this will take major outside financial...
...have overdrawn on their big profits to support their luxurious living, are interested in getting the most possible revenue now. But Tariki, an admirer of Nasser, shows a disposition to settle for less revenue now, which in his view is wasted on palaces and princes, in favor of Arab control of future oil marketing. On this point, the major Western companies insist, they must never yield...
...first time, and 13 black and five white mayors took office. Settled in modernistic offices, well paid, and furnished with chauffeur-driven Opel sedans, the African mayors were supposed to act as agents of Belgian authority. Instead, some assumed the old prerogatives of tribal chiefs and seized firm political control of the native communes. Recently African intellectuals in Léopoldville united to form the Congo's first native political party, with the aim of "independence" but "in a reasonable time and by means of peaceful negotiations." Whites are agitating for more local autonomy and have...
Instead of the usual single control stick, the X-15 has three. One is designed to resist the multiplied weight of the pilot's hand or body when he is subjected to his plane's acceleration under the push of its rocket motor because of heavy G-load or because of its deceleration on slamming down into the atmosphere. But when the X-15 is on a ballistic trajectory above the atmosphere, with its engine cut off, the pilot will be weightless. He will then shift to a second stick that will give him better control in space...