Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Middle East oil supplies; he was laying a threat to Britain's very existence. The moral outrage at Nasser's action was matched by an acute awareness of a vital interest involved. The British government sent flattops, cruisers and squadrons of jet bombers flying off to the eastern Mediterranean, and at week's end thou sands of reserves, hastily called from their summer pursuits, boarded troop transports bound from Britain for Cyprus. A British committee even banned Egyptian swimmers (including last year's winner) from the annual Channel race...
Cubi is within striking distance of most of Eastern Asia, would prove an invaluable defense anchor should the U.S. ever be forced to withdraw from Japan and Okinawa. Said Admiral Arthur W. Radford, who first suggested the Cubi base in 1948 and was on hand to dedicate it: "What we do is directed against no nation and no peoples-only against aggression." Replied President Ramon Magsaysay: "Cubi is one more proof that...
Last week ebullient. ebony-black Nnamdi Azikiwe, now Premier of the Eastern Region of Nigeria, was taking the worst knocking around he had suffered since his sparring with Zivic. He was hard hit; he reeled...
Family Affair. Two years ago Zik became the Eastern Region's first Premier. Still simmering over an old experience in a British bank in Nigeria ("Not only did the manager keep me standing in his office for some minutes, but he was curt and condescending"), Zik used his new power to transfer $5,600,000 in government funds into a hitherto modest native bank, the African Continental. The catch was that the African Continental Bank had been founded by Zik himself, and, although he had resigned as a director upon becoming Premier, he and an organization called Zik Enterprises...
...Returning to grass after a disappointing Derformance in the National Clay Courts championship in Chicago, New York's Althea Gibson got back in form, beat Margaret Osborne du Pont 6-1, 6-4 at the Vlerion Cricket Club to win the women's Pennsylvania and Eastern States tennis championship, most important U.S. title of her career...