Word: eastern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divided Into Three. So far, Britain's efforts to set Nigeria free have been hampered largely by the Nigerians themselves. Known to its intimates as Sweatpot-by-the-Sea, Lagos today is the capital of a loose federation of three largely autonomous regions: the rural Christian and pagan Eastern Nigeria of the Ibo tribesmen; the Christian and pagan West of the Yoruba, rich with cocoa profits; and the Moslem North of the Hausa and Fulani, where powerful emirs struggle to protect the traditions of a feudal past. Each section hates and distrusts the others. Her Majesty's government...
Golden Demon (Daiei; Harrison). The Japanese soul has been described as a lotus bud stitched up to look like a big-league baseball. In it, the traditional Eastern longing for a spiritual flowering is crudely merged with the modern Western urge to get to first base. Golden Demon, except for Hiroshima the only postwar picture from Japan in which the U.S. moviegoer can learn anything specific about 20th century Japanese life, tells a story of how this broken culture broke two lovers' hearts...
What do surgeons say during an operation? In the Hollywood version their speech is tense, clipped. A new recording by Folkways Records of an actual operation in an eastern U.S. hospital shows that, in reality, surgeons sound like expert mechanics bent over a balky V8. Thus...
...debate over Federal regulation of natural-gas producers (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), Michigan's Republican Senator Charles Potter, who favors regulation, tore into the gas lobby for trying "to put pressure on me." But Senator Potter also had a powerful lobby working for his side: representatives of scores of Eastern utilities and big unions, plus a small-producers'-and-consumers' committee headed by Indianapolis' former Mayor Alex M. Clark...
Benson also recommended a vigorous effort to dispose of the surpluses already held by the U.S., even by selling or bartering in the grain-short Communist colonies of Eastern Europe. His program also included a proposal to help some 1.5 million low-income farmers to improve their farming efficiency or, failing that, to aid them in their transition to non-farm employment...