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Both sides agreed last spring to let the Sudanese choose for themselves. It was easier said than done. For some months, a seven-man electoral commission, supervised by an Indian chairman and including one American, labored to parcel out 97 crude constituencies, establish direct voting procedures -for "sophisticated tribes" and indirect methods for the primitives. The commission arranged for the election, in three stages, of a 97-man House of Representatives and a 50-man Senate, 20 of whose members will be nominees of the British Governor General. Sudan's first Parliament will decide the nation's future...
...predominant fault of the bad English encountered today is not the crude vulgarism of the untaught but the blithe irresponsibility of the taught. The language is no longer regarded as a common treasure to be hoarded and protected as far as possible. Rather, it is loot . . . to be played with, squandered, plastered on for one's adornment. Literary words imperfectly grasped, meanings assumed from bare inspection, monsters spawned for a trivial cause-these are but a few of the signs of squandering . . . The advertiser bids you 'slip your feet into these easygoing leisuals and breathe a sigh...
...outputs in millions of tons: coal, 458; steel, 85; crude oil, 313-Electricity: 399 billion...
Bubble Blanket. Tiny plastic bubbles that cut evaporation 85% to 90% when floated on crude oil in tanks were put on the market by Bakelite Co. Estimated savings if used by the entire oil industry: $60 million a year...
Hardening Arteries. He began to look for a new machine for a relatively unmechanized market. A.M.F. got the patent rights for a crude model of a pinspotting machine from Fred Schmidt, the inventor, even though nobody before had ever succeeded in perfecting such a device. Finally, after 14 years, a satisfactory model was produced...