Word: lateral
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Nearly five hours later-at 8 a.m.-Adele Mailer checked into a downtown hospital with critical wounds in her abdomen, her back and near her heart. She had fallen on some broken glass, she gasped. The doctors were dubious, but postponed further questioning until after an emergency operation. By the time Adele Mailer had recovered enough to talk to detectives, her husband was in a television studio, taping an interview with Mike Wallace. He did indeed plan to run for mayor of New York next year, he admitted-on an existentialist ticket. The problem of juvenile delinquency would...
...This Happens . . ." Later that afternoon Adele Mailer described the details of that scrape to the police; she readily admitted that her husband had stabbed her with a 2-inch penknife soon after the party when she was preparing for bed. "He was depressed. He just came at me with a funny look in his eye. He didn't say a word. There was no reason. He just looked at me. Then he stabbed me." That night detectives found Mailer, neatly dressed and unshaven, sitting on a hospital bench near his wife's room...
...aybe Later. Anderson ignored these counterproposals. After three days the meeting broke up with a communique implicitly conceding that the parties had been unable to reach any agreement. A clutch of critics promptly raised the cry that Anderson's "brutal" methods had foredoomed his mission to failure. Under Secretary of State Dillon was reportedly miffed, not at the purpose of the mission, but at its ultimatum-style presentation...
...passing and the coming of the Industrial Revolution, Britain's interest in Nigeria shifted from people to palm oil. To get the oil, British trading companies began to penetrate the interior of Nigeria-and after them came the Union Jack. By 1903, when Sir Frederick Lugard (later Lord Lugard) began his campaigns against the Northern emirs, British rule in Nigeria was an accepted international fact. But even yet no one conceived of northern and southern Nigeria as having anything but a geographical connection; the word Nigeria itself was coined by a London Times contributor named Flora Shaw-who later...
...Matter of Chance. The man who rules Nigeria today is two years older than his country. He was born simply Abubakar, the child of Yakubu, a minor official in the regime of the emir of Bauchi. (According to northern custom, he later added to his given name that of his village-Tafawa Balewa.) Though Abubakar was not of the mighty Fulani-his family belonged to the Geri tribe-his father's position won him the rare privilege of schooling in a region almost totally illiterate. After secondary school he was even able to get into Katsina Teachers' Training...