Word: abidjan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...IVORY COAST (F.) Pop.: 3,300,000. Size: 125,000 sq. mi. Literacy: 16%. School attendance: 40%. College graduates: More than 600. One in every 225 citizens gets higher education. Abidjan is black Africa's most pleasantly Frenchified city...
...statesmanlike." Today, more than ever, given charm, taste, tact-and looks-the wife of a ruler can be statesmanlike simply by being a woman. In the color pages that follow, TIME surveys a new and lively generation of First Ladies who are adding style and spirit to statecraft from Abidjan to Washington. Whether entertaining at home or making the foreign rounds with their husbands, the reigning beauties of 1962 are the West's best argument for face-to-face diplomacy...
...anything black." The affluent Houphouet-Boignys also have a villa in the stylish Swiss resort of Gstaad (her six-year-old adopted daughter, Hélène, is attending school in Switzerland), an Ivory Coast beach house, an ultramodern five-story tower in the fashionable Cocody sector of Abidjan, the Ivory Coast's capital...
...presides over one of the hottest (average temperature: 90°) lands on earth, a steaming, lush thicket the size of New Mexico. Although much of Ivory Coast (pop. 3,500,000) consists of juju and squalid villages, it is moving ahead at a breathtaking pace. Its harbor at Abidjan, the capital, handles the world's third largest coffee crop, the fourth biggest cocoa output. Behind the docks is a booming city of 200,000, which for European charm and modern creature comforts matches anything in Africa. Superb restaurants offer French food (at outlandish prices), and towering construction cranes...
...Abidjan's prosperity, and Houphouet-Boigny's success, were largely made in France. The sprawling Renault auto assembly plant on Abidjan's outskirts is one reminder of the large amount of private French capital flooding into Ivory Coast; the heavily laden coffee craft steaming out of Abidjan's harbor symbolize the preferential trade agreements that Paris renews year after year. France hands out $50 million in annual subsidies and other aid to help keep the little republic solvent-and pro-French. But Houphouet-Boigny needs little wooing, for he has been in love with France...