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...eastern plains, one polling place stayed open the statutory nine hours to allow the three registered voters in the area (100 sq. mi.) to cast their ballots. On the palm-fringed shores of the Indian Ocean to the south, British district officers took to dugout canoes to ferry the black metal ballot boxes up crocodile-infested rivers to obscure villages where natives would choose from such party symbols as a clock, a cockerel, a lion...
...where Stanley found Dr. Livingstone) voted last week in their first election. Taken over by the Germans in 1884 in a fast deal with twelve tribal chiefs, Tanganyika passed under British mandate after World War I, and in 1946 became the U.N.'s largest trusteeship (362,688 sq. mi.). For a decade the British administrators prepared the way for last week's "experiment...
Tiny (pop. 150) Kalskag was the first to report its vote last week in the Alaskan referendum on entering the Union. Kalskag's vote: 40 for statehood, none against. And by week's end, with votes still being counted across the 586,400-sq.-mi. territory, it was clear that most agreed with Kalskag; a record 50,000 voted 5 to 1 to become the 49th state. Next steps: after the general election, and after the final votes are certified. President Eisenhower will sign Alaska into statehood, with two U.S. Senators, one U.S. Representative, three votes...
...Thach's worst problem is neither the submarine nor the submariner. It is the submarine's element, the sea itself-12 million sq. mi. of ocean surface in the North Atlantic alone. Surface surveillance, given enough men and equipment as well as allied cooperation, is a technical possibility. But it is of the unknown depths of the sea, the mysteries of the 2 billion-year-old undersea world, that man knows pitifully little. More is known of the near side of the moon than of the ocean floor...
...Virgin Islands, one of the tiniest (132 sq. mi.) of U.S. territories, President Eisenhower last week nominated a new Governor and fellow Republican, John David Merwin. He is the youngest (36) and the first native-born islander of the eight civil Governors named since the U.S. bought the Virgins from Denmark in 1917 for $25 million...