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...Michael Blundell, 48, Minister without Portfolio in the Kenya government, come home to ask his constituents for a vote of confidence. Blundell has decided that the 2½-year-old Mau Mau war can no longer be won by bullets. One of Kenya's wealthiest farmers, Yorkshire-born Blundell was seeking support for his policy of giving the colony's 6,000,000 Africans and 100,000 Indians a share in Kenya's government...
Since the paper's owners view the Times "first as a responsibility and second as a business," the declining profits of the Times are not the major reason for the changes. But the profit margin of the paper, one of the wealthiest in the U.S., has dropped so fast that it is a cause for concern. Last year's strike, said Times Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger, cut the paper's earnings to "virtually nothing." The fact that the Times can make money at all is something of a publishing miracle in the face of its overhead...
...know only hunger may share in the freedom and plenty that Americans take for granted. But the businessmen in the Eisenhower Cabinet are not interested in a return to expensive giveaway programs. Their WEP is based on spreading abroad the practices and philosophy that have made the U.S. the wealthiest, most progressive nation in history. Foreign investment is to the advantage of other nations who lack the capital to develop their resources; it is also to the advantage...
...time John Sherman Cooper was born in the big house overlooking the town of Somerset, six ancestors had been county judges, and two had been circuit judges; the Coopers were the wealthiest, most prominent family in the county...
...college with Columbia. "We believe," he said, "the day of the small college, independent of the university, definitely to be over. Some of the well-endowed and fashionable ones may go on living for years, decades, but they will be fewer and fewer and eventually even the wealthiest of them are likely to disappear...