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...short years ago the docile Navajo Indians grubbed about in their 25,000-sq.-mi. desert reservation at the four corners where Utah, Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico meet. Disease-ridden, undernourished, ignorant, they lived in ramshackle hogans and crumbling shacks, contemplating a future as bleak as their past was romantic. Then, in 1956, big-time oil drillers on Navajo land hit the jackpot, and the dollars began gushing in. By last week, their numbers grown to 85,000 (v. 15,000 in 1868), their treasury to $60 million, their ancient weapons supplanted by grosses of ballpoint pens, lawyers, bookkeepers...
...stewed peanuts, and one paramount chief-His Highness James Okosi II of the Onitsha-fulfilled a lifelong ambition: to ride the escalator at the Charing Cross underground station. In the end, the Nigerians got what they had come for: on Oct. 1, 1960, the largest (373,250 sq. mi.) of Britain's remaining colonial territories would get its independence (TIME. Nov. 3). But behind the scenes the conference had revealed ominous signs of trouble to come...
...himself. In answer, Rojas issued a defiant communique: "I cannot recognize this farce, conceived in hate, vengeance and vain haughtiness." As the hour of his appointment with the Senate passed, a few followers in the town house tried to convince Rojas that the glorious days of power would return. "Mi general," shouted one, "the people are with you." Rojas smiled, nodded and hugged himself: "I am enveloped in the constitution...
Tired of being on the wrong end of the TV quiz show scandals, Producers Dan Enright and Jack Barry (Twenty One, Tic Tac Dough, Concentration, Dough-Re-Mi) asked their bosses at NBC to relieve them of all "production responsibilities." NBC eagerly agreed. They will spend their free time, said Barry and Enright, "disproving the unfounded charges against the integrity of our programs...
Agony Hour. Alaska is virtually doctorless. In the great land's entire western half (250,000 sq. mi.), only Nome boasts a private practitioner. The job is mainly up to seven public-health physicians, including Dr. Brownlee, at five tiny U.S. hospitals run by the Alaska Native Health Service. They serve only 30,000 people, but visiting patients is usually out of the question. For hours at a time, every night, the "agony hour" radio dialogue goes...