Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, a big chunk of the audience at a movie would rise in days past and bow toward the screen whenever Rita Hayworth appeared in a picture. Thus did Nairobi's Moslems pay their respects to the wife of Prince Aly Khan, whose father ruled their Ismaili sect. Asians in Africa are about 800,000 strong. While the white rulers have begrudgingly tolerated Africa's Asians, the blacks have become increasingly resentful of them. For a continent-wide report on the increasing number and growing problems of Asians in Africa, see FOREIGN NEWS. Between...
...trip to Moscow last month was his arrangement with Premier Nikita Khrushchev to send a trade mission to the Soviet Union "in the near future." Last week the Russians gave a rude shock to British businessmen whose hopes had been roused by windy Communist talk of a $2.5 billion rise in East-West trade. Before a British commercial group in London, a Soviet trade expert read off a blunt message from Nikita Khrushchev: "Countries that are interested in increasing their exports to the Soviet Union should increase their purchases from it." Most of what the Russians are willing to sell...
Wonders cease, after all-even the wonderful rise of the Toronto Maple Leafs. Last week, in the first all-Canadian hockey final since 1951, Montreal's Canadiens brought the saga to an end, defeating the Leafs 5-3 to become the first team in National Hockey League history to carry off the Stanley Cup four years in a row. But the Canadiens' remarkable accomplishment had to share top billing with the Leafs' improbable achievement in being there at all. Only two months ago the Leafs were sunk in the league cellar, with no prospects of getting...
...more than a token stoppage-because the public is watching the bargaining so closely. President Eisenhower is reportedly pleased with the prenegotiation squabbling, because it shows that labor and management know they are on the spot, will think twice before assuming public responsibility for an inflationary steel price rise...
While Board scores have gone up all along the line, they will probably not rise too much higher. It will be far in the future when Harvard will refuse the 550 boy with outstanding achievement in other areas...