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...about the young lady from Niger who rode on the back of a tiger. The young lady, he intimated, was Ike, and the tiger Bob Taft. *The Socialist Party vote reached its alltime high, 901,873, in 1912. It was 897,704 in 1920. In 1932 it was 884,781. In the same year, the Communist vote was 102,991. Thereafter, large numbers of former Socialist voters were absorbed in the Democratic Party and later in New York's Liberal and Labor Parties. In 1948 the Socialist Party polled 139,009 votes, and the Communist-controlled Progressive Party polled...
...Mean This?" In his bungalow beside the Niger River he read a lot, thought a lot, tried to write a Conrad-like novel. But his old wound was acting up, and he had asthma, insomnia and malaria. His wife and family begged him to leave the service. He still had his ?300 a year, his wife had ?600, and his father-in-law promised: "I'll see you through." Gary decided to settle down in Oxford and be a writer...
...lands drained by the Shannon, the Niger, the Nile, the Euphrates, the Ganges, the Indus and the Irrawaddy, Marxism is not the paramount issue. These lands are regarded by both Marxists and anti-Marxists as somewhat backward...
...millions of his fellow Nigerians who want independence from Britain. Some call him the Negro Gandhi, the jungle George Washington. His name is Nnamdi Azikiwe (rhymes with click away); he is the acacia thorn in the British lion's paw, the Bertie McCormick (see PRESS) of the Niger Delta, a coconut grove Jim Farley, and one of the few people in the world who got a high opinion of the U.S. from washing dishes in a Pittsburgh waffle foundry and having Pugilist Jackie Zivic poke thumbs in his eyes...
...breeze did not drop, and for the first time on our voyage we experienced the effect of pitching and rolling combined, a great silence fell upon the ship. . . . The little Niger hippopotamus ... lay down with his head flat on the deck, and ceased to think. His great red eyes looked through me at I know not what. The fawn, the antelopes, and the river-hogs swayed on their cloven, pointed hooves as they tried to maintain their balance. No pride in their eyes now. . . . The buffalo was.swaying in his crate, with a wandering look in his eye and ears laid...