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Banda's name was a household word in Nyasaland, for from faraway London he had produced a torrent of fiery pamphlets, messages and speeches in the cause of Nyasa independence. Last year, when nationalist riots spread through the colony, the government brought in troops and declared a state of emergency, accusing Banda of being the cause of it all. Banda denies he counseled violence, but he shouts: "We mean to get out of their damned federation. One cannot exclude violence. Africa is on the move. You cannot stop us!" Britain's Colonial Office wants Banda released, but Nyasaland...
When Hussein got back home from his tour, he listened with a heavy heart to the torrent of complaints about his brother -Mohammed badgering newspaper editors to put his picture on the front page, Mohammed phoning the radio station to play again and again his favorite tunes, Mohammed threatening physical harm to the U.A.R. ambassador, Mohammed boxing the ears of a group of girls who did not pay the proper attention to him. Once before, over the objections of doting Queen Mother Zaine, Hussein had tried to persuade the prince to go abroad for medical treatment. Finally last week...
...great postwar exodus to Suburbia has scattered commuters through the U.S. countryside surrounding great cities, put a crippling strain on the arteries that feed the metropolises. A few foreign cities also have problems in handling the commuter torrent: London and Paris groan beneath its weight, Tokyo hires students to push commuters tightly into rush-hour trains, and Calcutta's commuter rails are so crowded that people ride prone on the roofs of coaches. But in the U.S., the nationwide flight to the suburbs has created a huge problem for almost every major city. And the problem...
...Boston's South Shore and Cape Cod, the Central its Putnam division in Westchester County and West Shore line in New Jersey and New York. Boston and Maine's President Patrick B. McGinnis, who was washed out as boss of the New Haven in 1956 in a torrent of commuter complaint, has not improved his reputation by selling off 69 commuter stations, chopping off 37 trains...
...country valleys and the city itself had come more than a million people, who had heard about the visit from radios, newspapers and village criers. In bullock carts, buses and trucks (supplied by the government and private businesses), on bicycles, and on foot, they came in one deafening torrent-ragged peasants, neat little babus (civil servants), fierce-looking Sikhs, lovely sari-clad women-jamming through the streets, shouting, cheering...