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...March 25 The West Indies will take an important step on the road to self-government. The federation of the onetime British colonies of Jamaica, Trinidad, Barbados and seven other main islands-8,000 sq. mi. of land and 3,000,000 people sprawled over 1,500 miles of Caribbean Sea-will hold its first election, choose the first West Indies Parliament, which will be opened April 22 with Princess Margaret representing Queen Elizabeth...
...islands went into the final week of the campaign, a growing awareness of the realities confronting the new state-too many people and too little income (e.g., 1,382 people per sq. mi. in Barbados have a per-capita income of $239 a year)-dampened fiery nationalist expectations of years past. Observers predicted only a 40-60% turnout of eligible voters, and the Jamaica Times called the campaign "dreary." Admitted Probable Prime Minister Adams: "The federal government is going to be weak with a chicken-feed budget...
...sowing lawns has been developed by Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. A green mat of synthetic fibers containing grass seed is unrolled on the soil giving a lawnlike appearance while the grass takes hold and keeping out weeds. It disappears as the lawn grows. Price: 10? to 18? per sq...
Split Claims. A month ago Nasser fired off a note to the Sudanese government of Premier Abdalla Khalil demanding that the Sudan immediately hand over to Egypt 1) a 6,700-sq. mi. triangle of desert and scrub hills around Halaib on the Red Sea, 2) a 90-sq. mi. finger of land in the Nile River valley near the interior town of Wadi Haifa. Actually, Nasser had a legal case for his claim. After Lord Kitchener's forces (including a young subaltern lancer named Winston Churchill) defeated the Sudan's Dervishes at Omdurman in 1898, Egypt...
Neuburger hopes to rent 250.000 sq. ft. of space in Gorky Park to private U.S. firms, at $6 per sq. ft. for building space and $3 for open space. Though firms will be allowed to exhibit whatever they please, the fair's directors stress audience-participation exhibits and displays that demonstrate the U.S. way of life. Neuburger plans to have a U.S. supermarket, beauty shows, jiffy shoe repairing shops for Russian visitors; he also hopes to bring some U.S. artists to Moscow to exhibit, get 50 university professors to lecture at the fair. Says...