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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Reluctant Progress. To the outside world, he is not nearly as well known as his two fellow Premiers. In spite of a spate of political scandals, U.S.-educated Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe remains the undisputed leader of the Eastern Region, is almost solely responsible for raising the Ibos from tribal backwardness to their present positions in government in the Eastern Region and in education. A British-educated barrister. Chief Obafemi Awolowo, Premier of the Western Region, runs the most efficient government of all. But the crucial fact remains that the Sardauna in the north rules a land of ancient walled cities...
...eventually brought northern Nigeria to its knees. In 1900 the British proclaimed the region a protectorate. They ended the beheadings, the chopping off of hands and the slave trade, but they deliberately did not destroy the power of the emirs and the chiefs-under a characteristically empirical British policy known as "indirect rule." So it was not until 1956 that the Northern Region held its first direct elections to its Assembly, not until this year that its rulers finally got around to accepting self-government. Even today the emirs can appoint kadis (Moslem judges) with complete authority to fine, jail...
...plutonium is about the most perverse material yet known to man. As a metal it is preposterous; while being heated to its rather low melting point (1184° F.), it passes through six different crystalline forms, expanding and contracting as much as 8.9% of its volume. It warps and distorts itself, disrupting anything to which it is attached. Because of this, Argonne Lab has given up trying to use pure plutonium in reactors, is making fuel elements out of plutonium alloyed or combined with other materials...
...Cuthbert Aikman Simpson, 67, is in fact an American. Last week he became the first U.S. citizen ever named dean of a Church of England cathedral. And as dean of Christ Church, Dr. Simpson also becomes head of its renowned annex, Oxford's Christ Church College, familiarly known as "The House...
...Simpson became a U.S. citizen in 1937 ("I cast my first vote for La Guardia") and a distinguished Biblical scholar (The Early Traditions of Israel). In 1954 Oxford called him back to be regius professor of Hebrew and one of Christ Church's five canons. There he is known with considerable awe for searching lectures combined with openhanded hospitality, a briskly friendly American who keeps a visitor's glass filled and vacuum-cleans his brain at the same time...