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...leader of the European elected members, and as a member of the emergency Cabinet that fought Mau Mau terrorism, he was as determined as any settler to preserve the sanctity of the "white highlands." But last year, alarmed by the spreading gap between African and European (white) attitudes, he dramatically resigned as Minister of Agriculture and formed the New Kenya Group, a party resolved to break the white highlands monopoly, create a common electoral roll for all races, but preserve a special place for Kenya's 66,000 whites. "We must stop this racialism and build a Kenya nation...
...Region, the huge Moslem half of the country, which dominates Nigerian politics by sheer weight of numbers (19 million). In a region ruled by the emir aristocracy, Abubakar's rise was especially noteworthy, for he was a talakawa, child of a poor commoner. Uncommonly bright, he closed the gap with education, luckily gaining entry to the area's only college and later to the University of London's teacher-training institute...
...have bridged the gap between classroom theory and the hard realities of the business world with greater success than Donald Clinton Power, chairman and chief executive of General Telephone & Electronics Corp., the largest U.S. independent telephone system. An ex-professor of economics, hefty (5 ft. 10½ in., 194 Ibs.), round-faced Don Power, 60, stepped fresh into corporate management only nine years ago. Yet he has transformed a loose confederation of small telephone companies into a giant communications and manufacturing complex of 80,000 employees that serves more than 4,000,000 customers in rural and suburban U.S., where...
...ordered an investigation of all nontechnical manuals in all the services, with special instructions to blue-pencil any lines that are "lacking in good taste or common sense." Said one Congressman with commendable restraint: "Somehow we've got to switch our attention from gracious living to the missile gap...
...with full control of atomic weapons. The case for nuclear sovereignty rests largely on the argument that if the U.S.S.R. came to doubt that NATO would respond to an attack upon a single member, the nuclear power of the individual member would provide an independent deterrent-filling in the gap of uncertainty. One obvious danger: the independent armed nuclear ally might fire off a rocket in the heat of passion and involve the world in atomic...