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PROMPTLY at sunrise every Friday, the highest nobles and chiefs of the Mossi tribe gather outside the concrete palace in the capital of Upper Volta to go through a ceremony that has changed not one jot in centuries. Groveling in the dust, the chiefs render homage to the nobles and then in turn take homage from the multitudes around. When all that is done, drums begin to roll, and a plump young man of 28 suddenly appears, dressed in a bright red cap and robe. To 1,700,000 Mossi, the young Moro Naba is the incarnation...
This ceremony of "The False Departure"-which dates back to the day that one of the Naba's ancestors was persuaded not to desert his people to pursue a favorite runaway wife-is unique to the Upper Volta in the eight territories of French West Africa, but is in a way symbolic of the whole region's inheritance of paradox and anachronism. Next month Premier de Gaulle's new constitution will go before the people, who by choosing white or green cards will decide whether or not to cast their lot permanently with the French. Whether this...
...discuss Brazil's need for U.S. help in jacking up its economy and coping with Communist penetration efforts. Afterwards, Holland remarked: "No doubt about it, this appears to be the best government to deal with that Brazil has ever had." Said Nixon in a speech at the Volta Redonda steel plant the following day: "I confidently believe that Brazil is on the threshold of an era of progress unequaled in history by any nation in this Hemisphere. I am confident that with its abundant resources, its great people and its dedicated leadership, Brazil's progress in the next...
...Stapp (TIME. Jan. 10), the flight-surgeon rider on Holloman's terrifying rocket sled, who has probably taken more jolts than any other man. Now a new name for the new unit-the "stapp"-is well established. Colonel Stapp has joined the select company of men, e.g., Watt, Volta, Ampere,* whose names have been given to a physical unit of measurement...
...French Physicist André Marie Ampére (1775-1836) worked out many of the laws of electromagnetism; Italian Physicist Alessandro Volta (1745-1827) is famous chiefly for inventing the "Voltaic pile," a primitive electric battery; Scottish Engineer James Watt (1736-1819) had little to do with electricity, but he designed the effective steam engine that would generate electricity when generators were invented...