Word: easts
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Rebel's Conversion. By then Nigerian politics had taken on a permanent three-way stretch. In the Ibo East, Zik's National Council of Nigeria and the Cameroons held sway. In the West, the Action Group, headed by shrewd, stodgy Chief Obafemi Awolowo (pronounced Ah-Wo-lo-wo), spoke for the Yoruba people. Northern power then (as now) meant tall, solemn Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna (commander) of Sokoto and boss of the Northern Peoples Congress...
...estimates are that Cuba needs an irreducible minimum of $250 million in freely convertible currencies this year to replace income lost by severing its U.S. trade ties, and Che was reportedly asking for a $400 to $600 million loan. As Che traveled to Moscow, on to Peking and points East before returning to Moscow, there was still no announcement of such massive...
...medical schools cannot turn out graduates quickly enough to fill the internships and residencies open (TIME, June 20). Moreover, some of the 9,500 foreign physicians now in U.S. hospitals came here on Government-sponsored cultural-exchange programs from strategically sensitive areas like Southeast Asia and the Middle East. The State Department warned last week that packing them home "could present us with an embarrassing foreign-policy problem...
...college is the rising fame of colleges that seemed obscure only a few years ago. Such good small schools as Carleton. Claremont Men's, Colby, Lawrence, Mills, Occidental, Pomona, Reed or Scripps are hardly "unknown" any more. Each is now almost as tough to get into as the East's most favored campuses-and well worth trying...
Most smaller colleges now try to attract students from a wider geographic area, notably from the big Eastern cities and suburbs. Says Kalamazoo's Princeton-educated President Weimer K. Hicks: "The sooner people in the East lose their provincial outlook on college education, the sooner we can ease up the so-called admissions jam." Pittsburgh's Chatham College prides itself on nurturing diversity and "intelligent nonconformity" among students; President Edward D. Eddy Jr. suggests that a student candidate's having backed some "unpopular but worthwhile cause" is a good qualification for admission...