Word: gold
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...kinds of government. In some cases, the transfer of authority was grudging; in others, power was being grabbed before responsibility was proved. But a surprising part of the changeover was an orderly transfer of sovereignty. One by one they made the headlines-from Ghana on West Africa's Gold Coast to Singapore in the Far East, to the West Indies federation in the Caribbean...
Almost next door to the new Gold Coast state of Ghana lies a far bigger British colony working toward independence. Last week in Eastern Nigeria, one of the three great regions of Britain's West African colonial protectorate, Premier Nnamdi Azikiwe (known as "Zik") won a decisive election on the wrong side of a scandal...
...atom and his, promotion of international cooperation among scientists. Nuclear Physicist Bohr, the founding nucleus of Denmark's famed Institute of Theoretical Physics, was chosen by Atoms for Peace Awards, financed by the Ford Motor Company Fund, to receive its first annual prize: $75,000 and a gold medal...
...trunk is done automatically by electronic controls. Seats, steering, windows and brakes are power-operated; air conditioning is standard equipment. And as a final bow to happy motoring, the door of the glove compartment is custom-fitted with a cigarette case, tissue box, vanity case, lipstick and four gold-finished drinking cups...
Died. Josephine (Sherwood) Hull, 71, dumpling-shaped character actress (Arsenic and Old Lace, Harvey, The Solid Gold Cadillac) who modestly tapped fame at 55 ("I'm short and fat and funny, you know, and not easy to fit into a play"); of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Manhattan...