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Westward a lot of U.S. families have been taking their ways, according to a Census Bureau report issued last week. During the years 1950-58, while the total U.S. population was increasing 15%, the population of the Western states soared 29%, paced by lonely Nevada's dizzying 70% (to 272,000) and wide-open-spaced Arizona's 57% (to 1.2 million). California, having overtaken Pennsylvania back in 1950 to become the U.S.'s second most populous state, grew another 35% in 1950-58, from 10.6 million to 14.3 million. Over the same span, New York...
...Under Secretary of State C. Douglas Dillon, on a flying trip to Europe, preached the need to end European discrimination against the dollar and for prosperous Europe to do its bit elsewhere. The U.S., having donated or lent $75.8 billion to foreign countries since 1945, could not bear the burden alone, nor could any single nation. ¶ Britain's Sir Oliver Franks, onetime ambassador to Washington, and now chairman of Lloyds Bank, coined a vivid, if not quite precise, name for the new need. Instead of a familiar East-West crisis, he talked of a North-South axis, proposed...
Last year, when De Gaulle visited the Senegalese capital of Dakar (pop. 230,000), its leaders stayed away with diplomatic illnesses, and crowds held aloft DE GAULLE GO HOME signs, as the general rode through the streets. But last week everyone was happy with the new state of affairs. Premier Keita told a mass meeting at Dakar's sport stadium: "The stranger who comes to our house is like a god. Ladies and gentlemen, you must treat De Gaulle...
...left Britain sovereign over two bases on the island's south coast. One such dissident, an elderly, respected Nicosia lawyer named John Clerides, 73, presented his candidacy against Makarios. The situation was made to order for Cyprus' Communists. When Governor Sir Hugh Foot ended the four-year state of emergency last month, they emerged from underground, led by Ezekias ("Pappy") Papaioannou, 51, a Spanish Civil War veteran. Around him were Prague and Moscow-trained party activists, who already control the island's dock and farm unions. They volunteered their support of Right-Winger Clerides in order...
...court, the highest in the state, has taken no action as yet upon the Corporation's reply. Warren F. Farr, an attorney for the University, feels that the next step will be an informal hearing before a court-appointed master...