Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last week, on a visit to his northern province of Syria, Nasser tossed off incendiary speeches, pledging never to let Israeli ships or goods through the Suez Canal, damning the 1950 U.S.-British-French guarantee of Middle East borders as "dead and buried," summoning all Arabs to follow him in a "sacred march" to "liberate Palestine...
When Kenyatta, accused of fostering Mau Mau, was sent to serve a seven-year prison term in the Northern Frontier...
Alhaji Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, K.B.E., 47, is Prime Minister of Nigeria, Africa's most populous (35 million) nation, which will get its independence next Oct. 1. His name comes from the little village of Tafawa Balewa in the Northern Region, the huge Moslem half of the country, which dominates Nigerian politics by sheer weight of numbers (19 million). In a region ruled by the emir aristocracy, Abubakar's rise was especially noteworthy, for he was a talakawa, child of a poor commoner. Uncommonly bright, he closed the gap with education, luckily gaining entry to the area...
There is the case of a bright small-town boy, son of a construction foreman in northern Wisconsin. He has straight A's in math and science, B's in English, and he wants to be an electrical engineer. The state university fits his pocketbook, but his dream is M.I.T. He should try M.I.T. (though his only-average college board score in English is a hazard), and he should also try Wisconsin's Ripon College (enrollment: 600). He may feel happier at Ripon because it is smaller and less expensive...
...Rhodes scholarships to its credit, and plenty of new money (TIME, Dec. 21). Ohio's Marietta ranks eleventh (with Antioch) in the U.S. in production of prominent men scientists. Ohio's College of Wooster produced the famed scientist brothers Compton (Wilson, Karl, Arthur). And Lawrence College in northern Wisconsin is a hatchery of university presidents. One former teacher, Victor L. Butterfield, heads Connecticut's topnotch Wesleyan. One former president, Henry M. Wriston, later took over Brown. A successor, Nathan M. Pusey, went on to Harvard...