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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington's Walter Reed Army Hospital, convalescing from a gall bladder operation and brooding about the campaign by high-level Republicans to dump him as a political liability. The day before, Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton had dropped a blackjack hint that Benson ought to "step down" for " the good of the party (TIME, Dec. 21). In G.O.P. inner councils there had even been discussion of the possibilities of persuading the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to call Mormon Apostle Benson back home to Salt Lake City for church duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Resigned to Duty | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...blacks. Though the austere new houses are quite an improvement over the old tin shanties, they not only cost eleven times as much to rent, for people whose pay ranges from $3 to $10 a month, but are regarded by the blacks as nothing more than one more ignominious step toward complete apartheid. When the mandate's administrator flatly refused even to receive a delegation from the location, the voteless blacks turned to the only weapon they had left-a boycott of the city-owned buses and beer halls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH WEST AFRICA: Unhappy Mandate | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

Although Edinburgh-educated Nyerere dislikes some parts of the new agreement with Britain, he has agreed to support it for four years before taking the next step, full African self-rule. He even insists that the civil service (2,800 whites, 300 Africans) remain predominantly British until Tanganyikans can be trained, and acknowledges the permanent right of Tanganyika's whites and Asians to have a minority share in government. Blessed with a sensible African leader in a territory with no large white settler population, Britain was happy to make Tanganyika its first testing ground for self-rule in East...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bumps in Freedom Road | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...clung fiercely to the line that the Belgian Congo Africans must be content with local self-rule now, with a gradual transition to independence in 1964. His plans collapsed when Joseph Kasavubu's big Abako Party and other native groups announced a boycott of territorial elections, the first step in De Schrijver's plan for a slow evolution. As nervous Belgian officials sent wives and children off on "holidays"' in nearby Portuguese Angola, Abako's party organ Notre Kongo issued a warning of trouble to come. "The hour of testing has arrived. The aliens will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bumps in Freedom Road | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...says that he is just a bit dubious at finding himself in step with the herd. The crystal-ball gazers predict that the national product will jump to a $500 billion rate in the first quarter, race on to $525 billion or better before leveling off at $510 billion and the first half-trillion economy the world has ever known...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Hard Work and Vast U.S. Investment Begin to Pay Off | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

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