Word: formful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Mboya's "racist extremism" shocks even some of his fellow Africans-so much so that in July a group of African elected members in the colonial Legislative Council dealt a painful blow to Mboya's prestige by breaking away from his leadership to form their own multiracial National Party, devoted to slowly increasing African representation, which would assure democratic self-government by 1968 for Kenya. To regain his political luster, Mboya promptly announced a new party of his own-the all-African Kenya Independence Movement. But last week fate dealt Tom another setback: the Kenya government nipped K.I.M...
...right wing is led by the conservative Allal el Fassi, 49, who is little interested in Morocco's masses, devotes much of his time to visionary schemes for a "Greater Morocco," including large chunks of the Sahara. Istiqlal's left wing, which Ben Barka led away to form the nucleus of his new party, impatiently demands land redistribution and "other reforms to help Morocco's impoverished millions...
...constitutional monarchy within the modern Commonwealth of Nations, the Governor General, though he lives in high style at Government House, no longer governs except for the once-in-a-lifetime occasion when politicians disagree, and he must choose a Prime Minister to form a government. Vanier was picked by Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, formally appointed by Queen Elizabeth II, and in all important respects serves as the Queen's standin, exercising her powers and prerogatives. His main function is to exemplify the unifying symbol of the Crown in his travels across the land. His predecessor set an arduous example...
...secret: a series of steel-and-plastic "tree units," which look like beach umbrellas with canopies curving upward instead of down. Bolted together, they form ceilings and roof; supporting pipe columns carry the load. By simply adding or subtracting tree units, the school can be expanded as the community's needs change -or moved to a new site...
...school exists only in model form in the office of Architecture Professor Marvin E. Goody, who heads an M.I.T. team working on the project under a grant from Monsanto Chemical Co. Goody cannot yet predict how much a full-scale model would cost. But it could be planned in one-third the time needed for designing conventional schools, and built twice as fast...