Word: nation
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their control, stopped sales of the poison stuff (and the spread of the paralysis) outside the Meknes area. They also jailed the 25 merchants. King Mohammed V, whose powers are unlimited by any parliamentary control, put out a royal edict decreeing death for "crimes against the health of the nation," and making the edict retroactive to cover the poison-oil case. "The merchants should be made to fry in their own oil," growled a cop in Meknes last week, as he watched the cripples hobble through slum streets...
...products and sell them finished goods, are slowly pushing private merchants out of business. Each Sunday, workers are induced "voluntarily" to build roads, schools and clinics in a scheme grandly titled "Human Investment," and Touré is working hard to rip up tribal roots and create a Guinea nationalism. By requiring English as well as French instruction in schools, he hopes to create a bilingual nation that one day can lead both English-and French-speaking West Africa. Such a nation, Touré was insisting last week, would not be Communist, as his enemies and some of his old friends...
Though the South African government shrugged off the U.N. action as one more example of a nation the world misunderstood, the English-language Rand Daily Mail gloomily noted that "on each occasion the number of countries supporting the resolution gradually increases," and wondered how long the government "can go on implementing a racial policy that is arousing more and more opposition throughout the civilized world...
...teeners column in This Week magazine, interests in record-and music-publishing companies and other items, all adding up to an estimated annual income of $500,000. In the general uproar about payola, the House Subcommittee on Legislative Oversight last week inevitably got around to Dick Clark, the nation's most powerful disk jockey...
...dreary Russia, Moscow University (enrollment: 27,000) is one of the few visible convincers that a primitive nation is out to conquer space. Among its 420 full professors, it boasts 33 members of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Famed for aerodynamics and mathematics, it relegates the humanities to the old university (founded in 1755) in downtown Moscow. Its real heart is the new (1953) Palace of Science, a vast complex of 37 buildings that sprawl atop the suburban Lenin Hills on the site of what-ten years ago-was a peasant village...