Word: southeasterly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nigeria divides naturally into three parts: the Moslem north, whose 16 mil lion are ruled by Moslem Emirs; the southwest, where the Yoruba people, led by Barrister Obafemi Awolowo, make their headquarters in the world's largest Negro city, Ibadan (pop. 459.000); and the southeast, which is Ibo-land, presided over by big-eared Nnamdi (Zik) Azikiwe, the flamboyant, U.S.-educated newspaper publisher whose oratory sways the Lagos mob. Usually, Ibo and Yoruba make common cause against the Moslem north; but last week their leaders were feuding over the flourishing port of Lagos...
China. The U.S. must not even talk about recognizing Red China. One reason: such talk would discourage 13 million overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia from their present strong anti-Communist drift...
...occupational badges of a veteran foreign correspondent is his bulging passport. Recently one such correspondent arrived in New York with a worn, battered old passport which had swollen to 140 pages. He is John Graham Dowling, TIME'S correspondent in Southeast Asia, who had just flown in from Singapore with his wife and eight-month...
...outbreak of the Korean war, Dowling was back reporting in Chicago, and, says he, "I began to get itchy feet." Dowling's itch coincided with a TIME decision to open a Southeast Asia bureau, and he was hired for that assignment. Setting up a news bureau out there, says Dowling, "was just a matter of finding a place to hang your hat. I picked Singapore principally because the cable facilities were good." As it turned out, Singapore was literally not much more than a place to hang the Dowling hat. "I averaged only about two weeks out of every...
...device of "learners' permits," which allow even lower pay. Federal-tax amortization benefits, he says, have been "disproportionately granted to Southern plants." Federally regulated shipping rates "discriminate unduly" against New England (although he admits that New England is badly located to exploit the big new markets of the Southeast and Southwest). And worst evil of all, in Kennedy's book, "one of the most obviously unfair inducements offered to those [industries], considering migration, is the tax-free plant built by a southern community with the proceeds of federally-tax-exempt municipal bonds...