Word: model
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Lincoln University, denounces it for costliness (160 senior teachers for 650 students), frets because the predominantly British faculty holds out for classical education against the practicalities that Nkrumah favors. Yet the college sparks Ghana's drive to uplift education at all levels, a model for Africa to ponder...
Died. Alfonso Reyes, 70, world-roaming Mexican poet (Gulf of Mexico), essayist (The Position of America) and diplomat, who delved lovingly into the history of his land without becoming insular, offered the synthesis of cultures in Mexico and South America as a possible model of harmony for the rest of the world; of a heart attack; in Mexico City...
Within the new addition there will be complete office and laboratory space, as well as room for a new high-speed IBM 709 digital computer--a faster model than the one now used by the Smithsonian to track earth satellites...
...model prisoner, Kaunda finishes his jail term in January, and at that point, Northern Rhodesia's governor, Sir Evelyn Hone, expects trouble to begin. Last week he prepared to have enacted a new "public security" bill that will give him more drastic powers than any colonial governor has ever had in a British territory not in a state of war or emergency. The governor would be able to control the territory's press, prohibit meetings, conscript labor and supplies, and detain troublemakers without trial. "It is with no enthusiasm that we who have been nurtured in the tradition...
...harmonious automation lies in preplanning, letting the union and employees know about laborsaving changes before they take place. National Biscuit Co. faced the tough task of explaining why it had to shut down two old bakeries, build a new highly automated one in Chicago. It set up a scale model, invited comment from employees on how to make the plant better. Soon after the new plant began operating, Nabisco's share of the market so expanded that employment rose to 2,400, a third more than the two old plants combined. Says a union official: "The company...