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This week the urban elections (or "consultations," as the Belgian authorities prefer to call them) will be extended to Elisabethville and Jadotville, the largest towns in the mining province of Katanga. Next in line: Stanleyville, Bukavu, Luluabourg, Matadi. But not even unlimited economic opportunity can still the demand for political expression, which runs through Africa like a fever. Said one Congolese last week: "This didn't come soon enough, and it isn't enough...
Overnight skiing trips to the ISA cabin in Franconia, New Hampshire are open to members only. Day skiing trips, however, are planned for every Sunday through the winter and are open to all. The largest event planned is the annual New Year's Eve party at the ISA center, at which 300 people are expected. Door admission is 90 cents...
Frank H. Westheimer, Research Professor of Chemistry, received the largest individual grant, $42,000. Others to benefit from the Foundation grants include George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Herbert W. Levi, Associate Curator of Arachnology; R. Duncan Luce, lecturer on Social Relations; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Chairman of the Institute for Research in Experimental and Applied Botany...
...issue was West Irian (Netherlands New Guinea). For years Sukarno has been claiming as part of Indonesia the wild, raw-material-rich western portion of the world's second largest island (after Greenland). For years the Dutch have refused to hand it over. Sukarno appealed to the U.N. "If the United Nations fail us," he warned last month, "we will resort to methods which will startle the world." The U.N. refused to consider Indonesia's demand, and last week Sukarno made good his threat...
Though Indonesian Premier Djuanda threatened "drastic action" against unauthorized seizures of Dutch property, SOBSI-led workers seized a Dutch club in Palembang, largest city of south Sumatra, two banks in Semarang in central Java, tea, coffee, rubber and palm-oil plantations in northern Sumatra and west Java...