Word: centralize
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...nationalists and the imprisonment of Dr. Banda two years ago have made a history in Rhodesia and Nyasaland too unhappy to be forgotten through such easy compromises. Yet as Dr. Banda himself has said, "There's absolutely no chance of conciliation or understanding between the Europeans and Africans in Central Africa" so long as Sir Edgar and Sir Roy are in power...
...Macleod helpless. It was hoped, when Mr. Macmillan chose him to replace Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd (who was able to deny harshly the no doubt valid Devlin Commission report that found the imprisonment of Dr. Banda quite unnecessary) that some softer glances might be directed toward nationalism in Central Africa. But it is at least clear now that unless some official of very great authority removes Sir Roy and Sir Edgar, the Federation, in Dr. Banda's words, "is dead. All that remains now is to bury...
Among the offerings which might (with some in accuracy) be termed entirely serious, John C. Holden's Memento Mori is the most substantial. Despite a not entirely satisfactory central metaphor ("My life's a sheet of paber filled with holes./People, punched away by antic death...") and some few rough spots, Memento Mori, which won the Hatch Prize this year, is a fine piece. Mr. Holden succeeds in encasing a particularly unwieldly sentiment in a tight and carefully plotted structure. The skillful shifting of the rhyme scheme, and its complete abandonment at one point, reinforce the progression of Mr. Holden...
Kirby does no jumping. He inherited some $50 million from his father, put most of it into blue chips and let his profits rise. He is the largest single stockholder in the Woolworth Co., in the New York Central, in Manhattan's Manufacturers Trust Co. as well as in Alleghany. Alleghany not only controls the Central and I.D.S. but also owns 51% of the Class B stock of the Missouri Pacific Railroad...
...okay on a new 4,700 mile rail network made up by merging the Minneapolis, St. Paul & Sault Ste. Marie (Soo Line) Railroad. Wisconsin Central, and Duluth, South Shore & Atlantic. All are subsidiaries of the Canadian Pacific Railway. The merger calls for formation of a new company to be called the Soo Line Railroad...