Word: springing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...instigator was Kenya's canny Politician Tom Mboya, 28, currently embroiled in a hot fight to expand his native party (see FOREIGN NEWS). When Mboya swept through the U.S. on a speaking tour last spring, he roused support for a stirring project: giving able young Kenyans a crack at higher education. The Royal Technical College of East Africa in Nairobi grants only subuniversity diplomas. Kenyans with a yen for more than a technical degree must go to Uganda's Makerere College, an affiliate of the University of London, or somehow find their way overseas...
...Greater Somali League to rival Issa's Somali Youth League, and charged that Issa favored a Little Somalia, confined to Italian Somaliland, because he feared his Hawiya tribe would be swamped in a state that brought 3,000,000 Somalis together. On the eve of showdown elections last spring, Haji Mohammed was refused permission to lead a parade of his partisans in Mogadiscio. "The blood is on the government's head if blood is spilled," he cried. Next day Haji Mohammed was arrested, two of his followers died and 16 more were hurt in rioting...
...swift spread of stock ownership is even more striking on the Continent. In West Germany, the Adenauer government is plowing ahead with its plan to "reprivatize" a $1 billion industrial empire inherited from the Nazis. Last spring the government sold the giant Preussag mining combine to 216,000 new German stockholders limited to annual incomes of $3,800 or less. In one sweep of a pen, the total number of German stockholders was increased by a third, to around 800,000. Determined to have a competitive private-enterprise economy, the government is now planning to sell off the great Volkswagen...
...General Motors or Chrysler. But they encouraged speculation that the suggested factory list price (with federal taxes, stripped) will be "around" $2,000. With extras (ranging from heater and radio to automatic transmission, white sidewalk, safety padding, etc.), the fully equipped, two-and four-door sedans (coming next spring: a station wagon) will probably carry about the same factory list price (with taxes: $2,250) as the present cheapest ("300" series) Ford, stripped. To Ford's Breech, the sales price will be no worry: "Our only problem will be manufacturing enough of them...
...weather that brought on this year's onslaught of crab grass was a mixture of wet, cold spring and hot, humid summer. a combination that weakens perennial grasses and strengthens the hardy weed. In Suburbia, where crab grass on a lawn can lower a man's status faster than a garbage can in his foyer, the prolific (up to 50,000 seeds a plant) weed has become a neighborhood problem, like juvenile delinquency; if not snuffed out in one spot. it quickly spreads to another. Yet it is almost impossible to stop: digging only exposes more seeds, poison...