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...damage, and injury, the East would secede from the Nigerian federation. During November, he refused to attend a constitutional conference in Lagos, the federal capital, claiming that large contingents of Hausa troops made the city unsafe for an Easterner. At the same time he insisted that nothing but the loosest sort of confederation would be acceptable to the Eastern Region. The only alternative, he said, was secession...
...have imposed strict new regulations governing corporate disclosure. Italy has legislation pending. Belgium and The Netherlands have commissions studying the problem. Moreover, it seems that voluntary reporting of detailed information is becoming a corporate badge of status and confidence. In Switzerland, haven of the holding company, where only the loosest laws exist and no new ones are contemplated, the voluntary reports of such companies as Nestle, Geigy, Alusuisse, Sulzer and Landis & Gyr already reflect recognition that fuller disclosure is the coming yardstick for a company's international standing...
This just had to be the loosest team in baseball. There they were, smack in the middle of one of the tightest pennant races in National League history, leading the league by 1½ games with four games still to play. Up in San Francisco, the second-place Giants had already beaten the Cincinnati Reds 5-3. In 15 minutes, the Dodgers were due on the field to take on the tough Milwaukee Braves. And what were they doing? Sitting around...
...other words, this mixture of politics and academics should begin with the loosest possible conception of academics. The men Neustadt brings to Cambridge should not all be members of someone's faculty...
Burgess Hill is the tight little isle's loosest "freedom" (progressive) school. Shunning all rules, it allows boys and girls aged 7 to 17 to smoke, swear, pet, go barefoot, stay dirty-and study only if they care to. The school looks it: a crumbling Victorian mansion with peeling ochre paint and broken windows, its front pillars alternately scrawled with "Ban the Bomb" and "Keep the Bomb." Inside is a happy jumble of paintpots, squashed toffees, dirty clothes and unmade beds. Scribbled over the walls are drawings, poems and odd messages. Sample: "I've been sick...