Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...minded Ashanti tribesmen who make up about 20% of Ghana's population were implacably opposed to Nkrumah and his Convention People's Party. Instead of treading softly in the face of this opposition, Nkrumah decided to live it up as the first black ever to become a Prime Minister in the Commonwealth. He evicted Britain's Governor General from 296-year-old Christianborg Castle, and moved in himself. He put his head on Ghana's stamps, announced his intention of putting it on the country's coinage, and ordered a 20-ft. statue of himself...
...Order of DeMolay, last week announced a new experimental drive to restore the prestige of the nation's biggest fraternal order. Next month Land will launch a new bellwether Masonic echelon: the Ancient and Honorable Guild of the Leather Apron, with faithful attendance at Masonic affairs a prime membership qualification. First among his prospective apron wearers: Missouri's U.S. Senator Stuart Symington, Kansas Tycoon Harry Darby, ex-President Harry Truman. Such VIPs, duly enlisted, hopes Booster Land, will constitute "a band of leaders, men with Stardust on them, who will bring back the rank and file...
...classic sculptures and ancient books. To Chatsworth. where earlier Cavendishes had kept Mary Queen of Scots prisoner, came Burke, Fox and other generations of Whig and Liberal leaders of empire to talk of cabinets and kings. Today, long after the Whig decline, Chatsworth preserves its influence in other ways: Prime Minister Harold Macmillan is only one of several British statesmen married to a Cavendish...
...force of intrepid Englishmen stormed into the sprawling Red Fort of Old Delhi and thereby broke the back of what the British still call the Indian Mutiny. (Some Indians now call it the "First War of Independence.") Last week, as the Republic of India celebrated its tenth Independence Day, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke to his people from the Red Fort's symbolic ramparts. Said he: "We have completed one journey of freedom. The second is just to begin. We have to understand that we may stumble and fall. When a people march forward, they are bound to stumble...
Fees & Famine. Yet India's tenth anniversary was celebrated amid what the Times of India calls "an accelerating volume of discontent." Less than two hours after the Prime Minister's Delhi speech, 2,000 students, angered by a 50% increase in their tuition fees, ran riot in the pink, princely city of Jaipur, breaking shop windows and setting fires as they went. In subtropical Assam thousands boycotted the Independence Day celebrations in their wrath over a government announcement that a new refinery to process Assamese oil might be built outside Assam...