Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...paradigm of the professional military man- dark hair fringed with grey, jaw square and trim, brown eyes alert under thick brown brows. His tunic was ablaze with the trophies of three wars - six tiers of campaign ribbons and medals from battles in North Africa and Sicily, France and Germany, Korea and Viet Nam, as well as the silver emblem of the master parachutist and the combat infantryman's badge...
...summer of 1965, Schopf found fossilized remnants of bacteria in rock samples that Barghoorn had brought back from Africa. The fossil organisms -- from a Fig Tree formation in eastern Transvaal, South Africa -- were then the oldest form of life known...
...outside projects, Volunteer Teachers for Africa and the American Indian Project, have budgets totaling $33,496. Unlike the local summer and winter committees, the members of the outside projects must raise all their own money. So far they have collected less than half...
...AFRICA looms big, beautiful and relatively inexpensive for voyagers who hanker for some spoon-fed adventure. In Nairobi, a visitor can step off an airplane and, within ten minutes by car, be in the wilds of the Dark Continent, watching an entire Bronx Zoo on the loose. Tourists can travel 8,500 ft. up Mount Kenya to the bamboo-jungle-surrounded Secret Valley Game Lodge, a two-story building set on tree-trunk stilts, rent a room for $15 a day (including meals) and gaze in perfect safety at leopards that slink out of the night to feed on baited...
...found the plains of Africa too small...