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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After Uhuru, What? Of all the newly independent black nations, Kenya provides the closest parallel to what Rhodesia might face if "one man, one vote" came true. It had a large population of white settlers (60,000 v. Rhodesia's 220,000), many of whom owned vast tracts in the "white highlands" northwest of Nairobi. Soon after uhuru, the government of Jomo Kenyatta bought up thousands of acres in the white highlands-at fair prices but with no refusal-and turned the land over to land-hungry Kikuyu families as part of Kenyatta's political debt...
Badge of Status. Despite the new competition, most card-company executives predict an almost limitless market for credit carding. Bank of America Vice President Kenneth V. Larkin says that only one in every seven families in California now has a credit card, estimates that one out of three-possibly even two out of three-is in a good enough economic position for card ownership. Thomas W. Gormly, senior vice president of the Pittsburgh National Bank, predicts a new era of credit-card merchandising, believes that the U.S. is already a "long step toward a cashless and checkless society." Dags...
...companies as Apeco, SCM and Bruning, which lease and sell their own machines and market the zinc oxide-coated paper that Xerox has patented. Meanwhile, Xerox has discarded the coated-paper means of copying, now uses plain paper. While competitors argue that their copies are cheaper-about 310 each v. Xerox's 50 -Xerox remains more popular because its plain paper is more convenient, does not have the slippery feel of the coated paper...
...certain resistance to wash-and-wear and wrinkle-free clothes made Europe lag behind the switch to synthetic fibers that swept the U.S. in the 1950s. Now Europe is making up for lost time. Synthetic fibers have become a $2.6 billion business in Western Europe v. $2.4 billion in the U.S. Close to two dozen new chemical-based fiber plants are being built in Europe (v. four going...
...never seems mere sensationalism, for Forbes says all there is to say about a fly-infested pesthole where honor gives way to hunger, where blatant homosexualism can be shrugged off but snitching a handful of rice is a capital offense. The unfortunates of Changi face their greatest agony after V-J day, when a solitary British paratrooper strides up to the prison gate and liberates them. Is he real? The prisoners stare blankly, then retreat in panic, suddenly jolted into the awareness that the horror of what they have become looms between them and the world for which they have...