Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recorded radio beat of tom-toms throbbed through the city of Accra (pop. 200,000). Barelegged, toga-clad Ghanaians danced down to the beach for a mass picnic, snaked through the streets in roaring torchlight procession, cheered the unveiling of a larger-than-lifesize statue of Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, 48, "Founder of the Nation...
...Britain's Tory government has stood firm in the face of Labor's blasts. Prime Minister Harold Macmillan continues to insist that there would be no point to summit talks without "a hope of definite achievement." Viscount Hailsham, chairman of the Tory Party, was equally unenthusiastic about suspending British H-bomb tests so long as the Russians continue theirs. Said Hailsham: "Within the last week or two, I understand, [the Russians] have exploded devices equal to 3,000,000 tons of high explosives . . . On the assumption that I am right in thinking we are not in front...
What's wrong with the auto industry? Since one in seven U.S. workers depends on the auto industry, Detroit's slowdown is largely responsible for the drop in steel and dozens of other important industries, and is one of the prime reasons that the nation's economic recession has gone...
Doubt about the economic future is certainly a prime factor, along with complaints that prices are too high, cars too big and too little changed from last year. Finance companies are more choosy about making longterm, 36-month loans; the shorter payoffs require higher monthly payments than many people are willing to take...
...Natural Resources and Scientific Research, Jeader in his country's independence movement, intimate of Gandhi and Nehru, scholar; of a stroke; in New Delhi. At the Moslem service for the Mecca-born philosopherstatesman (with about 100,000 mourners, the largest Indian funeral gathering since the cremation of Gandhi), Prime Minister Nehru wept, said: "The whole nation has been orphaned...