Word: lakes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Land of the Free. It was the whites who brought the first large group of Asians to Africa rather than engage black workers on the building of the great Uganda Railway-"the two ribbons of rust," as Disraeli called it, "that stretch from the Indian Ocean to Lake Victoria." Natal landowners also began importing Indian "coolies" to work their languishing sugar plantations. In four years Natal's sugar exports multiplied 33 times. The indentured Indians became settlers in their own right, and other immigrants-the "free" or "passenger" Indians-flocked to make a new life for themselves...
...Chicago Institute has been run by Acting Director Allan McNab, with a powerful assist from strong-minded Katherine Kuh, curator of paintings and sculpture. McNab will stay on as director of administration (staff: 405), thus freeing Maxon for matters of art. A bachelor, Maxon was born in Salt Lake City, trained at Manhattan's Cooper Union Art School and the University of Michigan, took his doctorate at Harvard...
...height of the blitz). Nine years later she is still stitching rugs and, as her father (Ronald Squire) puts it, "getting a bit weedy." The Marquis of Valhubert has been 1) captured by the Germans, 2) interned by the Russians, 3) ordered to the Sahara, 4) transferred to Lake Chad, 5) shipped to Ceylon, 6) posted to Damascus, 7) rushed off to Dienbienphu...
...opposition. Yale lost its famous Olympic stern pair through graduation, and several other key men through injuries, but they too have a squad with a depth which could easily turn out a powerful varsity boat. On last year's performance both Cornell, which swept the IRA regatta on Lake Cayuga last June, and Pennsylvania must be rated as strong rivals...
...panels will analyze the following projects: Gratoit in Detroit, Michigan; Vallingby, Sweden; Don Mills in Toronto, Canada; Washington Square in Philadelphia, Penna.; Mill Creek in St. Louis, Mo.; and Lake Meadows in Chicago...