Word: held
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...between the two men is that Nkrumah is the unchallenged boss of an independent nation of 5,000,000, almost all of them black, while Mboya, in the multiracial British colony of Kenya, is merely the leading African politician in a government where the whites run things. When Nkrumah held his All-Africa Peoples Conference, he propelled Labor Leader Mboya into the chairmanship, and the stage seemed set for a lasting alliance of Mboya's rising influence in East Africa with Nkrumah's power on the West Coast...
Last May, Mboya called a conference in Lagos, Nigeria, almost next door to Nkrumah, to form the first All-Africa I.C.F.T.U. labor organization. Ghana stalled for months before replying, finally sent word that the idea of a conference was all right, but that it should be held in Accra, "capital of the All-Africa movement." Mboya declined to change the site, tartly pointing out that Nigeria, with a population of 35 million, is the largest African country. Ghana decided to call a trade-union conference of its own at the same time as Mboya...
Premier Khrushchev's own speech to the first Hungarian Party Congress since the 1956 revolt held up Hungary as a lesson for all Communists. The "disturbances" of 1956, he said, were "largely due to serious mistakes committed by the former leadership, especially Matyas Rakosi (now in Soviet exile), which undermined the party's authority." Said Khrushchev, in what sounded as if it might be a warning hint for Peking: "If the leadership of this or that country becomes conceited, if we distort the doctrines of Marxism-Leninism in the building of socialism and Communism, these mistakes...
...manufacturing profits sometimes top 50%, investors are loath to accept less, and dislike U.S.-type management, which believes in building up large reserves, plowing profits back into expansion. Nevertheless, the investors seem to be swinging around to the U.S. concept. In Brazil, where U.S. owners in 1945 held 95% of the stock in 67 companies, today they hold 95% in only 17 companies, as local capital moves in to fill...
...Moore finally got Venus in the telescope sights. A tracking system held the image in the telescope's focus for a few minutes. Then the balloon started slowly down, drifting south over Nebraska and into Kansas. As they approached the ground, the crew cut the gondola loose from the balloon and popped a 100-ft. parachute. A gusty wind caught the parachute, dragged the gondola across pastures and through fences for half a mile before marines following in helicopters caught it and cut it loose. Bruised and shaken, the scientists climbed out. The gondola was a battered wreck...