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...straw-hatted chieftains met with Britain's Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd in London last May, few politically conscious Nigerians had doubted that home rule was really on the way. The only question was when. Last week in the dusty streets and mangrove-shaded gardens of the ramshackle, tin-roofed capital of Lagos, Nigerians read the answer in a special 32-page edition of the Dally Times. The answer, for half of Africa's most populous (33 million) nation...
...resign, taken to the road to talk down an impending general strike. Much of his trouble has been spawned by left-wing elements in his own Nationalist Revolutionary Movement (M.N.R.). led by Labor Boss Juan Lechín, who has helped turn Bolivia's biggest dollar earner, tin mining, into a mismanaged, worn-out featherbed for his followers. But last month Siles pushed Lechín to the sidelines by dissolving the leftist-dominated ruling body of the M.N.R. and firing four pro-Lechín Cabinet members. A fortnight ago, 70 mining experts representing both government and labor...
...spent four months in a hospital, was sent home and discharged. Back at the University of Saskatchewan, he shot through law school in one year, and during the summer of 1919 he hung up his brand-new diploma in a 9-ft.-by-9-ft. office in a tin-fronted building in nearby Wakaw...
...program intended to find ways to contrive laboratory equipment from cheap and available materials. The doo-dlers have already produced a strobe unit -a simple optical device for cutting up motion into a series of split-second visual pictures-out of two tongue depressors, the flat top of a tin can, a woman's dress snap and a piece of baling wire. A way of demonstrating wave mechanics was developed by shining an automobile taillight through a window frame of agitated water and thus projecting the wave motions on a paper screen...
Still young (23), still beautiful, Joanne flew to Switzerland, looking for new faces, new excitement. There she met sleek Bolivian Tin Heir Jaime Ortiz-Patiño, 25, and her mother urged her to marry him. The night before the wedding in Paris, Joanne rebelled, cried: "You pushed me into this!" Mother won out, and the couple were married in her apartment. Patiño gave his bride $250,000 in jewelry to show his affection, but the marriage was brief. After a 49-day honeymoon on Capri, Joanne disappeared, taking her money and jewels. Jaime found...