Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During the independence festivities only one noted Zambian failed to share in all the harmony. He is Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, a grade-school science teacher and the director of Zambia's National Academy of Science, Space Research and Philosophy, who claimed the goings-on interfered with his space program to beat the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the moon. Already Nkoloso is training twelve Zambian astronauts, including a curvaceous 16-year-old girl, by spinning them around a tree in an oil drum and teaching them to walk on their hands, "the only way humans can walk...
...besides the big ones, Johnson has also landed his share of small fry: last week he gained the Utica, N.Y., Observer-Dispatch and the five-paper Lindsay-Schaub chain in Illinois. And Barry Goldwater has made a few big catches. His papers now include the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Cincinnati Enquirer, the Oakland, Calif., Tribune and the Richmond News Leader...
...items, but most of the cuts have affected goods that are neither important nor hotly competitive. Though trade within LAFTA has risen from $660 million in 1961 to an estimated $1.1 billion this year, it still amounts to only 9% of the members' foreign commerce-a lower share than a decade ago. In an effort to bring about a genuine common market, the LAFTA delegates at Bogota will consider several proposals. One plan would trim all tariffs by 10% a year; a more popular proposal calls for 12% cuts by LAFTA's most advanced members (Argentina, Brazil, Mexico...
...Hands of Esau: Entering freshmen share an agreed conception of Harvard life. They see themselves as beings with the possibilities of success or failure. The essence of this principle is that one must emerge from the crowd or else one is nothing. On this basis the necessity of action is established, but it is a rare freshman who possesses the inner confidence that he has, at the start, all the stuff needed to make...
...group buy the firm's small predecessor company from Charles Litton, and that an agreement was made to split the founders' stock into five parts-two for Thornton and one each for Jamieson, Ash and Steele. As it turned out, Thornton got at least 144,000 shares, Steele only 10,000. According to Litton's lawyers, Steele was fired in 1959 after telling Tex Thornton that he planned to sue for a bigger share...