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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This is my dream-all British," Empire Builder Cecil Rhodes once said, placing the palm of his hand across the map of Africa. Rhodes spoke 75 years ago, and in the following half-century his countrymen came close to fulfilling his dream. In West Africa's jungles, they founded two great river colonies: the Gold Coast, which is bigger than Minnesota, and Nigeria, which dwarfs Texas and Oklahoma combined, and is Britain's most populous (25 million) African possession. Following Explorer David Livingstone in his search for the source of the Nile, they filtered into East Africa, crossed...
Last week, to safeguard its hold on the remaining British Africa, Britain's Colonial Office took two big conciliatory steps. Most ambitious was a plan to amalgamate the self-governing colony of Southern Rhodesia with the adjoining protectorates of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland (see map). Together, the three territories would form a 475,000 sq. mi. Central African Federation, which might one day become Britain's eighth dominion...
Tiny New Hampshire (pop. 536,000) is normally little more than a speck on the politicians' map of the U.S. It will send numerically unimportant delegations to the national political conventions; 14 to the Republican, eight to the Democratic. But last week politicians and pundits from coast to coast were carefully adjusting their fine tuning to get a good, 21-in. view of what is going on there. On March 11, New Hampshire will have the first presidential preference primary of 1952. It will be the first big test of Eisenhower's voter appeal v. Taft...
...York, Chicago and Washington. But it gets comparatively few long-haul passengers because they prefer to take transcontinental lines. With Northwest's cross-country flights to Seattle-and its overseas arms to Honolulu and to Japan, Okinawa, Korea, Formosa and the Philippines-that pattern should change (see map). For its part, Northwest would cash in on Capital's Eastern business, and get a transcontinental route through Chicago, which it has long wanted...
Stimpson pointed to a map of Massachusetts, divided into election districts. "Right now, we're busy lining up delegates for the state primary on April 29th--two delegates in each district. Massachusetts is one of the three states in the country where the voters can clearly show their choice for the nomination. Of course, with our man it's a ticklish business." He explained that delegates could not appear on the primary ballot directly pledged to Eisenhower, since this would require the written consent of the candidate which Ike, as an Army officer, cannot give...