Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...elephants that roam South Africa's huge Kruger National Park are normally friendly enough. Last week however, even park rangers kept their distance from the beasts. One elephant recently sat down on a Volkswagen and flattened it, though the two German tourists inside had time to escape...
Abroad, Pentecostalism has spread to more than 90 nations from Australia to South Africa and South Korea to Finland. Nowhere has it found more ardent followers than in Brazil. There are now 2,600,000 Pentecostalists in that nominally Catholic country-a gain of 1,100,000 since 1962. A major reason for the harvest is that, despite the Brazilians' traditionally easygoing approach to religion, many seem to be drawn by the intimacy and fervor of Pentecostal services, the joyous and uninhibited hymn singing, and the upright rigidity of the church's moral standards (no smoking or drinking...
...growing pride in race, the papers are using the word Negro much less than before; the Amsterdam News has banned it altogether in favor of Afro-American. "Our emphasis is on self-determination within the black community," says Nigerian-born Simon Anekwe, who writes a column on Africa for the News...
Died. Albert John Luthuli, 69, Africa's first native Nobel laureate (for peace, in 1960), and one of its most articulate champions of racial equality; of head injuries when he was struck by a train; near Stanger, South Africa. A teacher at Natal's all-black Adams College, Luthuli first rose to world notice in 1952 by helping to organize a defiant but nonviolent campaign against South Africa's hated apartheid, to which the government reacted by stripping him of his Zulu tribal chieftainship, and finally, in 1959, virtually banishing him to his isolated farm, where...
Buried somewhere in Africa is a valid idea. Far-sighted ranchers are indeed beginning to breed wildlife as a partial answer to the world's dwindling food supply. Tors, a director of the World Wildlife Fund, obviously hoped to make a film that would entertain as well as in struct. This one does neither. Africa-Texas Style! has not enough of the real Africa, less of Texas, and no style at all. It patronizes the natives, shows the beasts in badly edited shots that unconvincingly mix footage of wild lions and tame humans. Tors has even included the ancient...