Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NAKED PREY. In a stunning, single-minded epic of survival, native warriors track Director-Star Cornel Wilde through scenic Africa of a century ago, where menace lurks behind every fern...
...ENDLESS SUMMER. Two young California surfers hit the beaches of Africa, Australia, Tahiti and Hawaii, where they discover that surfing is fast becoming an international pastime...
...publishers' main effort to correct this has been to produce thin supplementary books that fill the gaps in Negro history, ranging back to the fairly rich empires of 8th century Africa. They show the degradation of U.S. slavery, profile such authentic but little-known Negro leaders as Suffragette Mary Church Terrell and Abolitionist Frederick Douglass. They span the terrors of lynch law and report on today's freedom marchers. Best of the supplements are Doubleday's Zenith Books, written in a sixth-grade vocabulary but with an adult perspective...
Harvard was the original owner of the Boyden Observatory when it was moved, in 1927, from Peru to Bloemfontein, in the Orange Free State -- what one South African described as the Mississippi of South Africa. In 1955 a cooperative was formed in which Harvard shared the Observatory with Northern Ireland, Ireland, Sweden, West Germany, and Belgium. On July 1, 1966 Harvard transfered its administrative and logistic responsibilities to the Smithsonian Astro-Physical Observatory which is closely linked with the Harvard Observatory...
Although Tillinghaft said that this was a possible interpretation, it was important to retain an intellectual link with South Africa; the implication was that if desegregation was pushed too hard, the astronomers would be expelled from the country entirely