Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Costs of such luxury items as chocolate have skyrocketed, and the only mascara available runs down the ladies' faces. But signs of austerity are few, and business in downtown Salisbury is brisk. Unable to buy from Britain and other Commonwealth countries, Rhodesia has simply turned to friendly South Africa instead. Since Prime Minister Wilson cannot prevent South Africa from selling oil to Rhodesia, Smith gets all he needs to keep the economy going...
...strangest things happen to air liners in Africa. A BOAC flight into Nairobi once touched down by mistake in the game park just outside of town...
...women who have fallen hardest for the fall are such socialites as San Francisco's Franchise Fleishhacker, Manhattan's Anne McDonnell Ford and daughters Anne and Charlotte, Princess Grace of Monaco. Jacqueline Kennedy, and Joan Kennedy, who bought a fall especially for her upcoming trip to Africa and the Middle East. "I'm just not going to have time to go to a hairdresser," she explains, and she plans instead to rely on the fall to stay elegantly coiffed with a minimum of effort...
...that his boss had assumed too much power. The danger of one-man rule is, in fact, one of Jeune Afrique's most persistent themes. "We believe that the funda mental role of the press is to prevent leaders from taking advantage of the people," says Ben Yahmed. "Africa's rulers have learned to fear...
...familiar orange-flavored Fanta, as well as orange Cappy, which is not seen in domestic markets. Pepsi has a line of fruit drinks called Mirinda. The global market has few seasonal fluctuations. When cold weather comes to Europe and Japan, the sun shines all the brighter in Australia and Africa. Says Britain's Lord Watkinson, whose Schweppes Ltd. is also a Pepsi bottler: "It doesn't rain or snow all over the world at the same time...