Word: rans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nkrumah's opponents are subjected to courtroom complexities. The regime announced that Dr. Joseph Danquah, 69, the distinguished scholar and early nationalist leader who ran against Nkrumah in the 1960 presidential election, had died in a detention camp. A heart attack, an official spokesman blandly explained, but in nearby Nigeria the newspapers were full of allegations of death by torture. Snapped Nigeria's President Nnamdi Azikiwe, an old friend of Danquah: "If independence means the substitution of indigenous tyranny for alien rule, then those who struggled for independence have not only desecrated the cause of freedom but have...
...Life Savers. Nowadays there are certificates, medals, highball glasses, ashtrays, barometers. The earth-shaking event is duly recorded by Golf Digest, which gives away clothes and golfing trips to the winners of its annual Hole-in-One Sweepstakes. Last summer Harrah's Club at Lake Tahoe, Nev., ran its own hole-in-one contest, and the winner had his choice of three prizes: a Rolls-Royce, a Ferrari, or "His and Hers" Jaguars. Al Reale, a restaurant owner from San Leandro, Calif., was the winner; he chose the Rolls. The U.S. Golf Association warned Reale that he would lose...
...usual in dock strikes, the biggest losses at home were caused by interruption of commodity shipments. Sugar refineries in New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore laid off 1,700 employees after they ran out of raw sugar. Pepsi-Cola closed its Long Island City bottling plant. Grain exporters estimated that they lost $250 million of January shipments. Cargill Inc., the nation's largest grain exporter, closed elevators in four states, and two soybean plants shut down in Decatur...
...began with the biggest real-estate deal in history. On April 30, 1803, Napoleon Bonaparte sold Thomas Jefferson a parcel of land called Louisiana. It ran from the Mississippi to the Rockies, from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, and it was quite a bargain: 827,987 sq. mi. for $15 million. But what the U.S. owned it did not occupy. Already British traders were pressing south from Canada and Spanish raiders were roaming north from Mexico. Jefferson realized that he would have to move fast if America was to retain its new territory. He moved fast...
...Smith ran the two-mile instead of the mile because of a sore knee. Coach Bill McCurdy felt that the slower pace of the two mile would offer less chance of aggravating the injury with the heptagonals only two weeks away...