Word: africa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reader who recently spent 2½ years working with the Europeans and Africans of Nyasaland and Rhodesia, may I protest the one-sided view of the troubles in Central and East Africa presented by TIME? First let us recognize that there is very little resemblance between the primitive African and the Negro in the U.S. and West Indies. The latter are civilized and educated people, having lived the Western way of life for five or six generations. The African, an extremely likable and excitable person, still thinks and lives in a world of his own, and cannot catch...
After reading your interesting article [on nationalist growing pains in Africa, Aug. 31], I reaffirmed my belief that Africa should be governed by the black man. No one can supply the leadership needed for a nation if that person is not truly a native. England and the rest of Europe had better wake up to the fact that colonization is long since past. No tea-sipping, drab Englishman sitting in London or Johannesburg, regardless of his vast knowledge and experience, knows all the problems and needs of the African. NORMAN EDWARD ROURKE Tulsa...
...earth (see map). As in the Atlantic, the cracks generally follow the tops of rises in the ocean bottom. They stay midway between large land masses, but in a few places they run ashore, forming, for instance, the steep-sided Jordan Valley and the famous rift system in East Africa which contains both Lake Tanganyika and the Red Sea. Another crack runs ashore in Mexico, to form the Gulf of California and the Imperial Valley...
...Atlantic Ocean is a very old crack that has rifted over and over and grown 3,000 miles wide. Its sides may still be moving apart at the rate of about one yard in 1,000 years. At the other extreme are young rifts like those in East Africa that have not had time to split more than once. Eventually they may grow into oceans as wide...
...Story. Audrey Hepburn, as a Roman Catholic nun who decides that it is love of self rather than love of God that has sent her to her calling, is too antiseptic to come alive. The story, though, is a natural, and the camera work in Africa dazzlingly beautiful...