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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control, the federation, which is larger than Britain, France, Holland and Germany combined, was founded in 1953 by welding the protectorates of Nyasaland and Northern Rhodesia to the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia. The Central Africa Federation (pop. 7,450,000) is the world's second largest exporter of copper, fourth largest of tobacco-a land dotted with modern cities and rich in asbestos, coal, lithium, chrome and cobalt. But in the stretch of the Zambesi River Valley, soon to be flooded by the Kariba Dam, the Stone Age Tonga tribe still wear porcupine quills in their noses...
...Latin American relations, suggested some concrete ways to improve them. Speaking to alumni of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Joseph Peter Grace Jr.. 45, noted the hemisphere's close ties, both economic ("It is the area where we have the largest direct private investment abroad-almost $9 billion") and historical ("Our people all came here, primarily from Western Europe, in search of freedom and opportunity...
...rising competition for both readership and advertising from the suburban press. ¶ From a surprising source-Jack Patterson, circulation manager of the Washington Post and Times Herald-came an indictment of editorial vulnerability to pressure from advertisers. He cited the case of "one of the nation's largest newspapers" whose publisher, fielding an advertiser's request that a certain story be dropped, killed the story promptly. "If this happened on the Post," said Patterson, "the story would probably have been moved from an obscure location to the front page." To which Los Angeles' Murray retorted: "That would...
Revue (which died of atrophy two years ago). In 1939 along came the Ice Capades, now the nation's largest, with two separate companies touring the U.S. (last year's gross: about $10 million). When Minneapolis Restaurateur Morris Chal-fen bought tiny Holiday Inc. in 1945, the Big Three had successfully tied up all major U.S. ice palaces...
...Houston school board, which runs the nation's largest (159,200 students) segregated school system, last week found itself in an unsettling situation-its newest member, 42-year-old Mrs. Hattie Mae White, is a Negro. A former public school teacher and mother of five children, Mrs. White startled Houston citizens when she announced her candidacy ten weeks ago. She was written off as a crusading eccentric when she ignored a vacant seat on the school board, decided instead to run against Board Member Dr. John K. Glen, a staunch segregationist...