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...NIGERIA (Br.) Pop.: 42,000,000. Size: 356,669 sq. mi. Literacy: 24%. School attendance: * 55%. College graduates: ** over 5,000. Christians: 20%. Five universities, plus widespread adult literacy classes. Together with Ghana has more college graduates than all other black African states combined. Witchcraft, female circumcision still common in rural areas...
...GHANA (Br.) Pop.: 6,700,000. Size: 92,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 25%. School enrollment: 600,000. College graduates: 4,500. Christians: 28%. Most people practice old animist religions, but violent rites largely gone. Some 5,000 Ghanaians studying in West, reflecting increased college attendance in African nations...
...SIERRA LEONE (Br.) Pop.: 2,600,000. Size: 27,924 sq. mi. Literacy: 10%. School attendance: 20%. College graduates: 450. Christians: 30%. Capital city, Freetown, boasts University College, affiliated with Britain's Durham University since 1876. Literacy below 5% in hinterland, where pagan rituals common...
Brazil, a country almost as big as the U.S. (3,287,842 sq. mi.) and with a population expected to reach 200 million by 2000, has been spinning adrift for eleven months, ever since President Janio Quadros quit. Now, in place of a strong presidency, it has a two-headed parliamentary system that isn't working. Bloody riots in the streets, and the possibility of worse ones, last week brought bickering politicians into a semblance of truce...
...line store in New York comes close to matching Korvette's Fifth Avenue in annual sales per square foot of selling space. By best accounts, Macy's does $130 to $155 per sq. ft., Brooklyn's Abraham & Straus $175, Saks Fifth Avenue $190-and Korvette's more than $300. At current rates, Korvette's first full-year sales on Fifth Avenue will easily top $30 million...