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With the premiership safely in his grasp, Lumumba promptly renewed his offer to make Kasavubu President-a chiefly ceremonial office under the proposed constitution. To everyone's surprise, Kasavubu accepted...
...biology. They estimate that a first-year biology student must absorb more strange-and unpronounceable-new words than he does in any first-year foreign language course. Then they plan to organize the facts of biology around a few key ideas so that the students will get a better grasp of the whole. "We want biology," says Zoologist John A. Moore of Columbia University, "not plants plus animals, each in splendid isolation, as is so often done in many courses. A Cook's tour of the plant and animal kingdom is no longer considered an effective way to proceed...
...American and Japanese capitalists," and he opposes the Security Pact because it "can only antagonize our two powerful neighbors on the continent," Red China and the Soviet Union. Sohyo is nominally run by fat, moonfaced Kaoru Ota, 48, but the real power is firmly in Iwai's ambitious grasp...
...Hong Kong's New Government Building, the bidding session was tense and sweaty. For 2½ hours, interests from Hong Kong, England, Japan and from the U.S. (Pan American World Airways) maneuvered against each other in an effort to grasp the prize: 40,000 sq. ft. of the most valuable land in Hong Kong, smack in the middle of the city's bustling financial district. Suspense mounted until the noth bid was made. Then, while little groups huddled together to see if they should raise their bids, the gavel banged down decisively. The winners, with...
TIME has been quick to grasp the importance of the vast continent of Africa and the part it is destined to play in the future of the world. I take this opportunity to offer my congratulations for your really first-class cover story on the great young nationalist, Tom Mboya, and your analysis of the rapidly changing face of Africa...