Word: breakups
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Repeat of the first installment of The Untouchables, a careful and competent documentary dealing with the breakup of Al Capone's underworld empire. With Robert Stack and Keenan Wynn...
...little town of Nenana, southwest of Fairbanks. This year hopefuls all over the 49th state and Canada's Yukon Territory (no tickets are sold to "outsiders") bought 170,000 tickets at $1 apiece for a chance to guess the exact day, hour and minute of the breakup. The exact minute is determined by an apparatus of Rube Goldberg complexity: the churning ice pushes against a tall pole stuck into the frozen river; the downriver drag on the pole tenses a wire running from the pole to a clockhouse on the river bank; the pull of the wire trips...
Politically, breakup of the Federation could also be disastrous, for Northern Rhodesia would soon want independence from Southern Rhodesia, which might then have to join South Africa, certainly no improvement for her black majority. Political independence, as the recent black-versus-black riots in the free Congo Republic in which 120 were killed demonstrates, would by no means be an unmixed blessing for a state as unprepared as Nyasaland...
...little extra disturbance that the final arrival can create. They complain that Lady Mountbatten, the former Edwina Ashley, is a Socialist and a "do-gooder." By other critics, Mountbatten will always be remembered as the last Viceroy of India, who cooperated with the Labor government in presiding over the breakup of the British Empire...
Cricks & Daffodils. To Alaskan oldtimers, even the weather had augured well for statehood. Not since 1912, when Alaska first became an organized territory and won its first real, if tiny, measure of home rule, had the winter been so mild and the breakup so early. Parkas, mukluks, beaver caps and sealskin coats were thankfully stored away. The ice was gone from the Yukon River, and from the Porcupine, the Koyukuk and the Selawick. Out to Woodchopper, to Steel Creek, Poorman and a hundred other placer gold camps, packed the glint-eyed prospectors in search of a glint in the sand...