Word: clustering
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Black Africa's first TV station and Nigeria's first university are in the Western capital of Ibadan, where three-quarters of a million people cluster noisily under a sea of tin roofs. Between them, the Yoruba West and bustling Ibo East dominate Nigeria's commerce and furnish most of the country's bureaucrats. But the real weight of the nation rests on the top of the Y. Here, in the Northern Region, live close to 20 million people, mostly Moslems, who still remember the jihad (holy war), in which, 156 years ago, the Fulani horsemen...
...cluster of green, sugarloaf islands huddles close to the China coast. As the jet airliner glides in, sunlight reflects from the rippled sea, the brown batwing sails of Chinese junks turn in the wind. The travelers look down on rocky hills with terraced fields, deeply indented coves alive with sampans, a wide harbor carrying a honking traffic of freighters, tugs, barges and ferries...
...small cluster of elderly people were impatiently was for him to arrive. No one seemed particularly concerned what Stafford would say; traditional Republicans. He had decided how to vote long before this election, International affairs barely interested them. The issue was study Congressman Meyer was a radical fool, Governor Staff out safe, "Besides," said one, "the Government is run by define agencies. Congressman have no right to examine their posses, " Meyer, they felt, was altogether too concerned of the government's business...
Syracuse got the message loud and clear. Against West Virginia it jelled for the first time this year, won by 45-0. Syracuse still faced some formidable rivals, notably Pitt and Army. But win, lose or draw in 1960, the thick cluster of sophomores and juniors on the 1960 squad marked the birth of a new football dynasty, a team almost certain to contend for national honors for years to come. Ben Schwartzwalder, a man with a system, is the father of that dynasty...
...Three new campuses must be built, on their way to 27,500 students apiece. Near the Scripps Institution of Oceanography in La Jolla, imaginative Director Roger Revelle has 14,000 acres for a cluster of small residential "universities" grouped around each subject, is building a faculty from the top down this year, with an advance guard of Nobel Prizewinner Harold Urey and twelve other members of the National Academy of Sciences. Up the coast is the 1,000-acre Orange County site, donated by the vast Irvine Ranch. Somewhere south of San Francisco in the state's North Central...