Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...AFRICA (ABC, 7-11 p.m.). A four-hour special touching all the bases-sights (the Nile, Kilimanjaro, the Sahara, Sphinx, Congo, jungle), wildlife, entertainment, Miriam Makeba, a Kinshasa jazz band, political leaders (including Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta), history, sports, health, education, tribal life, race relations and so on. Gregory Peck is the narrator...
Monday, September 11 COWBOY IN AFRICA (ABC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). North America is getting so crowded with TV series that Chuck Connors has moved to a game ranch in Africa for this new veld-West show. Premiere...
...that it was the "Hebes in Moscow" who provoked the Arab-Israeli war in order to give Israel more territory, including "that glorified gentlemen's pissoir, the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem." In the fantasies of Rockwell's chimerical world, he envisioned shipping 20 million American Negroes to Africa and gassing Jews after a grateful nation elected him President in 1972. After the depression that Rockwell predicted for 1969, the U.S. would clamor for "a white leader with the guts of a Malcolm...
...Mali, and into Algeria (see map). To the east of the boundary lies the Pan-African region, dated as 550 million years old. West of it is the 2-billion-year-old Eburnean area. According to Bullard, if the South American bulge had once fitted under the bulge of Africa, the continuance of the delineation between the two rock regions would be found running southwest through Brazil from a point near the city of Sao Luis 2,070 miles north...
Origin on the Equator. The control of skin color over vitamin D synthesis, says Loomis, explains the distribution of the races of man in prehistoric and early historic times. As far as anthropologists can tell, "human beings" originated in Africa near the equator. Almost certainly, they had black skins. Many anthropologists have argued that dark skin evolved as a protection against sunburn and skin cancer. On the contrary, says Loomis: dark skin came first, and light skin evolved as a protection against a deficiency of vitamin D. Black skin allows only 3% to 36% of ultraviolet rays to pass, while...