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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sardauna is a direct descendant of the fabled Fulani Imam who in 1802 launched the holy war that eventually brought northern Nigeria to its knees. In 1900 the British proclaimed the region a protectorate. They ended the beheadings, the chopping off of hands and the slave trade, but they deliberately did not destroy the power of the emirs and the chiefs-under a characteristically empirical British policy known as "indirect rule." So it was not until 1956 that the Northern Region held its first direct elections to its Assembly, not until this year that its rulers finally got around...
Modern prospecting has matured into a science, though man has yet to find a direct method of finding oil. The chances are still long. Only one wildcat field in 42 produces 1,000,000 bbl., and costs are so steep that a million-barrel field barely pays for itself. With risks growing higher and winnings less, fears have cropped up that the U.S., with only a twelve-year known reserve, will run dry of oil. Oilady Knowles disagrees: "Ever since Edwin Drake's discovery 100 years ago, there have been fears of a shortage. Each time...
...world is the U.S. Air Force's Military Air Transport Service. It is also one of the most controversial. In fiscal 1959 MATS will spend more than half of its $535 million budget to operate 533 transport planes, many of them flying cargo and passengers in direct competition with commercial U.S. carriers. Last week a MATS plan to add ten new Douglas DC-8 jets to its fleet at a cost of $66 million ran into a turbulent stream of industry, Administration and congressional opposition. Complained Pennsylvania's Democratic Congressman Daniel Flood of the House Appropriations Committee : "Congress...
There is understandable cynicism about the Council's power. Obviously no Council report by itself can have any direct effect on College policy, for decisions are made only by the Administration and the Faculty, and there is understandable doubt that the Council can convince the powers that be. In the only other sphere of Council influence, undergraduate organizations, there is general agreement that student groups should retain independence and not be subject to Council control...
...view of Veritas, glib liberalism gives aid and comfort to something more extreme: "socialism prepares the ground for communism." Though they draw a reluctant distinction between well-meaning, patriotic liberals and communist subversives, Veritas members insist that the first inexorably fosters the second. Veritas never accuses Schlesinger of direct subversion in writing Crisis of the Old Order, but it argues that his "socialistic" views unwittingly abet the communist conspiracy...