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...Hope for Fall. Three hours before the polls closed in London, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home ended months of suspense about the timing of the elections. He announced that the present Parliament, already the longest in peacetime since Queen Victoria, will not be dissolved until fall. Labor Party Leader Harold Wilson explained the delay with deadly brevity: "It is now quite clear why Sir Alec did not go to the country in June. I think he realized he had no chance...
...consortium of Union, Kern County and Australian Oil & Gas hit a field that is expected to produce up to 10,000 bbl. per day this year. Actually, the searchers have lately been finding a great deal more natural gas than oil. Gas finds have been made in western Victoria, New South Wales and in South Australia. A combine made up of Delhi-Taylor and Santos, Ltd. has struck two wells 500 miles north of Adelaide with a potential flow of 30 million cu. ft. per day, and last week the Australian-owned Associated Group struck its 21st gas well...
...harshly beautiful, the country was not wealthy. Average income was $55 a year, and fully half of its exports were in three crops: sisal, cotton and coffee. Tanganyika's mineral wealth was scanty, consisting of some gold and the Williamson diamond mine near Lake Victoria in the north. With its game-thick Serengeti Plains aswarm with trophy heads, and soaring Mount Kilimanjaro to attract all the Hemingway buffs, it had tourist potential...
Julius Kambarage Nyerere was born 42 years ago near Musoma, on the shores of Lake Victoria, into a pagan, tribal world. His father was a chief of the Zanaki, a small (40,000 members) Bantu tribe that filed the teeth of their young and fought the fierce, blood-and-milk-drinking Masai. Herding goats as a boy, Julius, at twelve, wrapped himself in a piece of trade cloth and hiked off to begin his education...
Also appointed were Henry J. Irwin '60, of Washington, D.C., and now with the Nubian Expedition of the University of Colorado in Wadi Halfa, Sudan; Terence P. O'Brlen of Victoria, Australia--biology; and Steven Vogel of Beacon, N.Y.--biology...