Word: northern
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...SOUTHERN NORTHERN STATES & WESTERN Right 36% 74% Wrong 53% 16% Undecided...
...infant African nation of Ghana began life with high hopes that Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah and his ruling party would show enough statesmanship to win the cooperation of the minorities in Ashanti and the Northern Territories. But the richer, more highly educated Ashantis, controlling the country's one big cash crop (cocoa), have agitated so articulately for upcountry rights that Nkrumah's less literate supporters, unable to talk them down, have resorted to highhanded repression. By the most arbitrary of these measures the government deported two Ashanti Moslem leaders on the ground that their presence was "not conducive...
With its crenelated walls and towers, San Marino perches on a mountaintop in northern Italy like some displaced relic of the Middle Ages. The world's oldest and smallest (23 square miles) republic, it was reputedly founded around A.D. 300 by Saint Marinus of Dalmatia as a refuge for persecuted Christians, has survived as a curious, isolated island in time amidst Italy's sweeping political tides. But last week the harsh forces of the 20th century clashed noisily in its cobbled streets...
...oldest man ever to serve in Congress, Rhode Island's peppy Democratic Senator Theodore Francis Green, turned 90, reaffirmed his aim to be re-elected in 1960 (he would be 99 on completion of that term), prepared to hop off this week on a tour of northern NATOland. Globetrotting Bachelor Green also swapped wired congratulations with a younger whippersnapper from Arizona who turned 80 the same day: Democratic Senator Carl Hayden, who has served longer than anyone else in Congress (he entered the House in 1912 as a youngster of 34). At a birthday whoopdedoo in Phoenix, Hayden...
SOLDIER BAYONETS WHITE MAN. (On the other hand, some Northern editors, among them those of the Chicago Tribune, felt the need to tone down their reporting by substituting Negro and Negro-lover for "nigger" and "nigger-lover," as bandied about by the Little Rock...