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...couple more royal visits and this town might look like something," growled a Scotsman in teeming, steaming Lagos last week. Never had the capital of Britain's biggest (373,250 sq. mi.) and most populous (32 million) African dependency undergone such a face-scrubbing as that which was preparing it for the arrival this week of Queen Elizabeth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NIGERIA: Ready for the Queen | 1/30/1956 | See Source »

...dried sea horses, centipedes, lizards and snakes. Yet more than 1,500 workshops and factories, many of them new and equipped with modern Western machinery, pour forth a cascade of flashlights, rubber shoes, bicycles and cheap cottons for the marketplaces of Southeast Asia. The colony consists of 391 sq. mi.; most of it-a 356-sq.-mi. mainland area called the New Territories-is leased from China until 1997. But the overwhelming mass of people live on Manhattan-sized Hong Kong Island and the small Kowloon peninsula...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hong Kong: Main Door to Communist China: A remarkably unfrightened place | 1/16/1956 | See Source »

...mi. of Florida, centering 70 miles east of St. Petersburg, there is enough phosphate to last U.S. industry 1,000 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FLORIDA: A Place in the Sun | 12/19/1955 | See Source »

...plunged into the competition last week. In legislative halls and banquet rooms, at ancient shrines and new construction projects, in plush drawing rooms and crowd-crammed streets, with merry quips, tough speeches and promises tossed out like rose petals, they wooed the great uncommitted mass (1,140,000 sq. mi.) and minds (356,891,-624 people) of the world's second most populous nation. With their mission less than half done, the anti-Communist Times of India was moved to admiration: "Bulganin and Khrushchev have the commercial salesmen of the West beaten to a frazzle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: The Rainmakers | 12/5/1955 | See Source »

...Mi amico, per exemplo, pagava su via al scola...

Author: By Andrew W. Bingham, | Title: Interlingua: A Universal Language? | 12/3/1955 | See Source »

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