Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last summer, students in the program travelled to Mexico, the Caribbean, Africa and Yugoslavia...
...Michigan. Shortly before Sputnik, he got Carnegie to sponsor a study that eventually led to the new math. He persuaded James Bryant Conant to undertake his probing look at U.S. education. He sent out three-man "Jeep teams" to investigate Africa because even then he could see that "it was a sleeping giant-in four years everyone would be crying for African experts...
...just that. In a swift and bloodless takeover, he ousted President Nicholas Grunitzky, suspended the constitution and the National Assembly, and banned all political parties. Coup No. 2 for tiny Togo (pop. 1,617,000) was the seventh military takeover in a year for Black Africa...
...military's World War II leaders because they had fought in "Britain's war," and in 1960, as Minister of Justice, was largely responsible for the ill-famed Sharpeville massacre of 72 Africans protesting the apartheid passbook laws; of a heart attack; in Bredasdorp, South Africa...
Radcliffe, which sent 101 girls into the job market (more than a third of the class), also concentrated on service jobs. The Peace Corps, Volunteer Teachers for Africa, National Teachers' Corps, and non-profit businesses attracted almost 20 per cent of those who are working. Non-scientific research was the second most popular field (18 percent), followed by teaching and communications (mostly publishing), with 14 per cent each...