Word: africa
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Manhattan. Best Seller Stuart Cloete (The Turning Wheels), who used to live in South Africa, prepared to go back for a year's stay. He explained: "There are too many vibrations here...
...biologists fared better as scientific matchmakers. Harvard's Dr. F. Parker Jr. and A. Loveridge, and Boston University's Dr. S. L. Robbins wanted to raise clawed frogs (Xenopus laevis), which are used in pregnancy tests. Thus far, these frogs have had to be imported from South Africa...
...Bosun. For all her understandable boredom in South Africa, Elizabeth has inherited from her parents the instinctive ability to, do the right thing. At a Girl Guide (Girl Scout) review in dark Basutoland, it was she who spotted a bus full of Guides kept well apart from the rest. Despite the anguished cries of officials, she promptly went over to talk to them. They were the Girl Guide troop from a leper colony. Next day everyone in South Africa knew what the Princess had done...
Prince Philip of Greece is the nephew of Elizabeth's cousin Lord Mountbatten, with whom he has lived all his life. Recently he renounced all rights to his Greek heritage and applied for British citizenship. Philip's picture sits prominently on Elizabeth's desk. From Africa she writes him several letters a week. He is such a family fixture at the Palace that Queen Elizabeth has sometimes had to rebuke him for ordering the servants about too much. King George can approve his daughter's marriage only with the consent of the Cabinet...
...train," she says, "in my new blue ankle-length dress, my dead mother's watch fastened to a long chain and stuck in my belt. Attached to the chain was a silver Child of Mary medal and a ... silver cross, and nobody, not even a native of central Africa, could have failed to recognize in me the typical product of a convent school...