Word: steps
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Taking its name from the Bight of Biafra, a coastal inlet, Eastern Nigeria had finally carried out its threat to secede from Nigeria and become an independent state. Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, 33, the East's regional governor, announced the step and unfurled the banner of his new republic at a 3 a.m. conference, then threw a morning champagne party...
...here to stay, but how long monaural sound can last. Today, three out of five phonographs sold are stereo, as are about half of all new LP records. Even the new monaural phonographs are now equipped to play stereo records without damaging them. So it seemed a natural step last week when Columbia, RCA Victor and Capitol Records announced they were eliminating the only competitive advantage that mono LPs have by raising their price $1, making them as costly as stereo...
...court upheld the law against foreign voting as a reasonable exercise of Congress's power over foreign affairs. But last week the court changed its mind, thus taking the rare step of overruling itself and voiding an act of Congress in the same decision. "Our Constitution," wrote Justice Hugo Black, "limits the Government to those powers specifically granted or those that are necessary and proper to carry out the specifically granted ones." The 14th Amendment "citizenship clause" says only that all native-born or naturalized Americans are U.S. citizens-period. "The Government is without power to rob a citizen...
Some Catholic enthusiasts for renewal were disturbed by the large number of conservative curialists who were named princes of the church. As it happens, expert Vaticanologists interpreted their elevation as a slight step toward modernizing and liberalizing the Roman bureaucracy. By tradition, one cardinal does not serve under another; several of the new prelates are seconds-in-command to venerable conservatives who presumably will now be induced to retire. Both Angelo Dell'Acqua and Antonio Samoré, the two Vatican under secretaries of state, are considerably more open to church renewal than their superior, Amleto Cardinal Cicognani, 84. France...
...them was Mary Chilton, the first woman to step off the Mayflower. Another branch of the family produced Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell. Great-Great-Uncle James Russell Lowell (1819-1891) was a Harvard professor of belles-lettres