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When ex-Missionary Garfield Todd was dumped two months ago as Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia (TIME, Feb. 24), the move was based on a hardheaded political calculation. Todd's own party, the Southern Rhodesian division of the United Federal Party, decided that Todd's vigorous advocacy of racial "partnership" between blacks and whites in the Central Africa Federation (Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland) had alienated white voters...
...whites. Last month his own Cabinet resigned in protest and demanded that Todd himself quit (TIME, Jan. 27). Africans warned it would be a "sad day" if Todd went. Last week the sad day had come; Todd had been ousted as leader of the Southern Rhodesian division of the United Federal Party, forcing his resignation as Prime Minister...
...mines. Kennecott is cutting back its U.S. production by 12%. Anaconda has sliced its Chilean production 10%, after cutting its Nevada mine output 16%. Phelps Dodge recently announced a 9% cut at its Arizona properties, representing a cumulative decrease of 22% since October 1956. Two giant foreign producers, the Rhodesian Selection Trust and the Belgian Congo's Union Minière du Haut Katanga have also trimmed operations...
Somehow McEwen had talked London's National Gallery, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum, Paris' Louvre and other museums into parting with 200 treasures-Rembrandts, Cezannes, Picassos, etc.-for a Rhodesian show. The 200 oils and more than that number of graphic art pieces were flown across the equator in five well-packed planeloads. Said McEwen: "It is unlikely that such a show will ever be seen again in Africa because of the difficulties and the reluctance of overseas galleries to allow valuable works of art to travel so far afield...
...Salisbury the humidity at night falls as low as 30%. With his gallery's humidifiers not yet in action. McEwen found that the dangerously low humidity was stretching the priceless canvases so taut that "they were ready to explode." To fight the dry air, McEwen and his Rhodesian sculptress wife, Cecilia, night after night dashed between their .flat and the gallery to drape damp towels over the frames of the stretching masterpieces. When asked about the effect of this do-it-yourself humidifying on the canvases, McEwen had a ready answer: "Emergencies demand drastic measures. That...