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...packed to leave for home, hearty holiday farewells at the final cocktail parties replaced the loud bickering of debate. What with the greatest assemblage of world leaders in modern history and the admission of 17 new member nations, the General Assembly's go-day session had been the noisiest and busiest on record. It also marked a change in the character of the U.N. itself...
...benches tall, haughty Hausas, splendidly robed in green and scarlet, sat amongst volatile Ibos draped in white and azure gowns. Across the aisle were Yoruba tribesmen wrapped in gold, yellow and orange with little porkpie beanies on their heads. Between them, they constituted one of the world's noisiest Parliaments. Each speaker was greeted with cries of "Heah, heah" from his friends and derisory shouts of "Sit down, you wretched fool" from his foes; from the rostrum came the perennial plea for "Odah, odah!" But somehow, through the din, the nation's problems got discussed and decided...
Back home, there were plenty of noisy young men who did. Noisiest was the flamboyant Nnamde ("Zik") Azikiwe, a nimble Ibo spellbinder who had spent nine years in the U.S. working as a coal miner, professional boxer and gatherer of university degrees (Lincoln University, the University of Pennsylvania). Returning home, he became the loudest advocate of an independent, united Nigeria. Under the rising pressure, the British agreed to set up-as "advisory" bodies only-local Houses of Assembly in all three regions, plus a federal legislative council...
...noisiest charges leveled against the U.S. by Latin America's Communists (see below) and rabid nationalists is that Yankee capital is used to exploit rather than assist underdeveloped nations. Last week Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon traveled to Puerto Rico to cite the facts. Said Dillon, speaking to a conference of hemisphere economists, educators and government officials : "Instead of extracting wealth, U.S. firms are creating new wealth for host countries." Items...
...Daughter. Though the Nationalist soldiers had fled, the Communists were not left without opponents. Let the Reds do their damnedest, boasted cocky Shanghailanders, we will change them before they change us. Big, brawling and unpredictable, the "bastard daughter of the West and China," proud of its reputation as the noisiest, wickedest, dirtiest and most vital city in the world, Shanghai was long accustomed to swift alternations of luck. Its quick-witted citizens viewed other Chinese as yokels. Though impressed by the discipline of the Red troops...