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...rulers to leave behind post offices and palaces, schools and hospitals. The population, which the government estimates at around 2,000,000, consists of a 99% tribal majority living in primitive isolation in the back country and a 1% governing minority called Americo-Liberians, descended from a group of freed U.S. slaves sent to the Pepper Coast of Africa with the backing of President James Monroe, the U.S. Congress and philanthropic organizations...
Blowing Whale. The heavy lower point, Adams explains, will be attached in such a way that the pressure or temperature at a predetermined depth will release it. Freed from this ballast, the needle will be lighter than molten rock, and it will float instead of sinking. At last it will surface like a blowing whale, bringing with it samples of deep-down lava that have forced their way into depressions in its shell...
...School, the College is asking for $400,000 in NDEA funds for '64-65. McDonald explained that this sum, added to income from endowed loan funds, would enable the College to meet its obligations without money from the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. Faculty funds would then be freed for other purposes...
...past Naziriyah Palace. The Royal Guard, deployed at Saud's orders to fight off Feisal, invariably stood at attention and gave him the royal salute. Finally Feisal sent word that unless Saud dismissed the Royal Guard and ceased all provocative behavior within six hours, he would consider himself freed of any further obligation under his oath to respect Saud's kingship. The King promptly caved in. The Royal Guard, irritated and rebellious, was ordered back to barracks, and the royal decree dismissing Feisal from office was never uttered-for the obvious reason that no one would have paid...
...many new companies (appliances, chemicals, superchargers) that half of its $400 million sales this year came from nonautomotive divisions. These divisions earned $12 million-though the company will end the year heavily in the red because of auto losses and the cost of closing the South Bend plant. Freed from its auto losses and armed with a healthy tax write-off, Studebaker says that it expects to make an overall profit next year...