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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week. The most powerful Congolese politician is Joseph Kasavubu, 42, one of Leopoldville's ten native commune burgomasters. But Kasavubu's Abako Party represents mostly the Bakongo people of the southwest, who want immediate independence only for themselves. Abako's chief rival is the National Congolese Movement Party, headed by a flamboyant convicted embezzler who wants independence without bothering with elections until later. From a Belgian point of view, there is little to choose between the two major parties-or the 58 other varieties; the main objective of all is to get rid of Belgian rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE BELGIAN CONGO: Return of the Mundele | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...they hoped their bird would do. "The orbit," they said, "will ensure the passage of the station near the moon and its flight around the moon. The station will pass at 10,000 kilometers (6,200-odd miles) from the moon, and after flying around it, will continue its movement to the vicinity of the earth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Lunik III | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Died. Vincent Richards, 56, tennis boy wonder who perfected a rifle-shot volley, at 15 teamed up with Bill Tilden to win the national doubles championship, won the Olympic singles the only year (1924) competition was held, at 23 startled fans by turning pro and triggering the professional-tennis movement in the U.S.; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Oct. 12, 1959 | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

Intentionally or not, Biographer Big-land has written an expose of advanced thought in Shelley's England. In the Movement, her record shows more finance than romance and proves again that those who set out to rid society of hypocrisy usually have plenty of their own in case they succeed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mrs. Shelley Plain | 10/12/1959 | See Source »

...Movement to counteract this apathy of the nation must start either at the grass roots or from the strong call of the President, he maintained, "but Eisenhower has fallen right into the complacent mood of the country...

Author: By Carl I. Gable jr., | Title: Williams Warns Of Complacency In U.S. Thought | 10/7/1959 | See Source »

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