Word: regions
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Abroad, the most immediate problem is a violent quarrel with Kenya's northeastern neighbor, Somalia, which lays claim to the barren but extensive Northeastern Region, inhabited by 200,000 Somalis (see map). To diminish such quarrels, Kenya is earnestly pushing an East African Federation of Kenya with Tanganyika and Uganda, which would create a nation of 25 million people and might eventually be extended to such small states as Zanzibar, Nyasaland, Rwanda and Burundi. Internationally, Kenya will, of course, be neutralist and accept aid from both East and West...
Southern school desegregation is inching ahead in 17 states and the District of Columbia. Of the region's 3,403,925 Negro pupils, reported the Southern School News last week, 314,571 - or 9.2% - now attend schools with whites, compared with 6.9% in May 1961. In eleven ex-Confederate states, the rate is still only 1.06%, but in six border states and the District of Columbia it has reached...
...curriculum is tailor-made to the problems of Central America." Smith said, "although it is not strictly confined to them." Instruction will be given by means of informal discussion, mainly of cases written by members of a research team that spent the summer in the region under the direction of Lodge and Thomas C. Raymond, professor of Business Administration...
...request of President Kennedy and the A.I.D., the nine-man research team directed by Raymond and Lodge spent novel weeks is the region this summer, interviewing more than 400 local managers...
...Courtney Smith, American secretary of the Rhodes Scholarships and president of Swarthmore College, announced four winners from each of eight sections of the country. Candidates for the scholarship compete in the region either of their school or of their home...