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Nkrumah's appointment as Prime Minister is far from a proclamation of the Gold Coast independence. The Colonial Office in London still controls finance, defense and justice. But, like the famous piano keyboard crest displayed outside the Gold Coast's Achimota School, his appointment is designed to show that black & white can work in harmony...
...just footed a large part of the bill for the greatest war in history. He is riding the crest of the greatest boom in history. In 1952, he is about to attempt the greatest feat of all. He is going to give up $62.6 billion, more in a single year than the U.S. Government collected in the whole leaf-raking decade of the '30s-and almost a third again as much as in the most expensive year of World War II. Of this $62.6 billion, almost half ($29.3 billion) will come from the individual income tax, not an American...
...Crest of the Hill. Bleeding profusely from the chest, he saw to the removal of other wounded men, and rallied the survivors. They fought to the crest. But there was an enemy emplacement hidden on the reverse slope of the hill. He charged it alone and was again hit by a grenade. But before he died, he "raked the position with devastating fire which eliminated it and routed the defenders...
...Judge Joseph Sims paced to & fro, his eye kept turning to the Doberman, Champion Rancho Dobe's Storm. Earlier, in the tense semifinal of the group judging, Storm had beaten the defending champion boxer, Bang Away of Sirrah Crest. Standing still as a statue, the Doberman moved only his head. He was keeping an eye on the judge. After only 15 minutes, one of the shortest final deliberations in Westminster records, Judge Sims gave the Doberman the nod. Storm promptly jumped up & down and pawed and licked his handler-just as if he knew he had won. Owner...
...stop while medical corpsmen bandaged his wound, but as soon as their backs were turned, off he hobbled on another series of charges. "At the critical moment," says the citation, "amidst an inferno of enemy machine-gun and mortar fire . . . Speakman led a final charge to clear the crest of the hill and hold it whilst the remainder of his company withdrew." When his grenades ran out, he threw stones...