Word: self
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Economically, Nigeria is a "have" nation by African standards, is close to self-sufficiency in food. But with a per capita income of only $84, capital is lacking to move the economy beyond its present agricultural base. Tin, columbite (for jet-engine alloys) and coal are all being exported, but there is no money to develop the lead, zinc and iron ore that have been found in quantity. Abubakar dreams of building West Africa's first steel mill and a huge dam on the Niger. But the big hope is oil. After 25 years, Shell finally hit a gusher...
...Christian Virtues. In his public contacts, Abubakar is quiet and self-effacing, but in Parliament he has lately begun to vary his usual restrained tactics. Fortnight ago, when the House of Representatives was debating a mutual defense pact that would allow Britain's R.A.F. to retain facilities at Nigerian airfields, Opposition Leader Awolowo, intent on embarrassing the government, cried out in outrage that the proposed pact was a "swindle" that would automatically involve Nigeria in war if Britain got in trouble. In his rich, rolling bass, Sir Abubakar fired back: "I have always regarded the leader of the Opposition...
...Soon after his arrival in Algiers, said Gardes, General Maurice Challe, De Gaulle's own appointee as commander in chief in Algeria, had assured him that the army was firmly behind a French Algeria; he was told not to take seriously De Gaulle's talk of "self-determination," since it was just "a maneuver to get past the United Nations debate on Algeria." As an intelligence officer, Gardes was in close touch with the leaders of the January uprising, and thought he was speaking the truth in promising them army backing...
...unbowed 29-year-old Negro woman, a migrant laborer since she was eight, now the mother of 14 children but still working for $1 per ten-hour day. She was one of several million U.S. migratory farmers who earn an average of only $900 and whose situation is self-perpetuating; only one in 5,000 of their children finishes high school. Said Edward R. Murrow, roaming a field in a short-sleeved sports shirt and quoting one farmer, "We used to own our slaves; now we just rent them...
...report also hit the "follies" of past New Haven management, said that instead of halting the road's decline, the road's present management has met competition "by an indulgence in loud complaint and self-pity. "The investigators also gave the back of their hand to the "shortsightedness" of the New Haven's employees, warned them that they "have no right to indulge in featherbedding...