Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Office of Foreign Buildings, headed by long-term Career Officer William P. Hughes. He concluded that neither Renaissance palaces (which too much recalled the past) nor glass boxes (which often clashed with traditional architecture, raised more hackles than they soothed) adequately represented the U.S. today. An advisory group of top architects was set up, and some 50 outstanding architects were called on for plans...
United Nations officials pointed out that in the next General Assembly, the African-Asian group will be the U.N.'s largest single voting bloc. On Oct. 1, Nigeria, most populous (35 million) of all African states, joins the independence parade. Within two years, the U.N.'s last territories, Tanganyika, Ruanda-Urundi, and the British Cameroons, will get their freedom. Last week Mason Sears, longtime U.S. delegate to the U.N. Trusteeship Council, who has a special interest in Africa, cleaned out his desk and submitted his resignation. "In Africa," he said, "our job is done...
...horn, the country is largely a desert plateau, studded with anthills as tall as a man, and roamed by a Moslem nomadic people whose per capita income from their herds is just $10 a year. In a way, Somalia's only asset for nationhood is a small group of capable, moderate leaders. They bear no grudge against the West, because they bear no scars of a struggle for independence...
Madagascar, the world's fourth-largest island, whose 5,000,000 inhabitants are largely descended from a far-voyaging group of Malayo-Polynesians who settled there perhaps 20 centuries ago, became the independent Malagasy Republic last week to the theme of banners reading "Long Live France, Country of Great Men!" Bulky, autocratic Philibert Tsiranana, the country's most popular figure, holds the offices of both President and Premier, and to avoid bothersome annoyance from Parliament, persuaded the legislators to give him the power to rule by decree. Though completely independent, the new republic will remain in the French...
...keep pace, the rival Outer Seven dominated by Britain cut tariffs between themselves by 20%, the first practical step to be taken since the Seven group was organized last May. The impact on trade patterns was almost instantly apparent. Some British automobiles will sell for $50 less in Denmark; West German chemicals can now undersell their British competition in The Netherlands but can be undersold in turn in Sweden. The split between the Common Market's Six and the Outer Seven was widening...