Word: northerns
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blacks and 300,000 whites, created in 1953. Harold Macmillan visits there this week, not long before an official British commission headed by Lord Monckton arrives to study the Federation's dubious future. Nyasaland's 3,250,000 natives are determined to leave the Federation. Similarly, Northern Rhodesia's blacks fear domination by big, white-run, apartheid-minded Southern Rhodesia, most powerful member in the Federation. Last week Federation Prime Minister Sir Roy Welensky replied, "Poppycock!" when radio interviewers suggested that a "tide of African nationalism is rising." But African leaders said they would boycott Macmillan...
...excitement and urgency showed on a map, one of the most conspicuous places in the U.S. this week would be an edge of northern Utah, hitherto noted chiefly for peaches, sheep and sugar beets. This unlikely region, in Box Elder County north of Great Salt Lake, is boiling with frantic activity. Strange lights glare in the night, making the mountains shine, and a grumbling roar rolls across the desert. By day enormous clouds of steam-white smoke billow up in a few seconds and drift over hills and valleys. Monstrous vehicles with curious burdens lumber along the roads. All these...
...dusk fell over northern Europe, the icy winds died down and weather forecasters predicted warmer air from the south would bring relief to Scotland Thursday. In the southeast, Austria braced for a cold wave after two sunny days...
LONDON, Jan. 20--Scores of villages were cut off tonight by a blizzard in Scotland and northern England...
...reason for this extraordinary state of affairs lies in the special way the Methodists set up their regional structure in 1939, when Northern and Southern branches of the church-split like most large church groups during the Civil War -united to form a single denomination...