Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...used the Colonial Office as a steppingstone. Gladstone was a Colonial Secretary when the job was still under the War Office. Winston Churchill was Under Secretary from 1906 to 1908 and steered through Commons a bill granting self-rule to the recently defeated Boers in South Africa. Reginald Maudling served as Colonial Secretary before he became Harold Macmillan's Chancellor of the Exchequer. The present Secretary is Fred Lee, 60, who last week was in the Southwest Pacific on a trip to British territories that no other Colonial Secretary had ever before visited...
...already forced dozens of ill-fed countries to start reshaping their pride-twisted economies. It has upset old notions of geopolitics. Most dramatic of all, it has virtually eaten up the perennial overproduction of U.S. agriculture, whose bounty now feeds one out of every 20 persons in Africa, Latin America and non-Communist Asia. The State Department last week told U.S. embassies to discourage requests for wheat because the nation must cut back such aid shipments by 25% this year...
...banned the playing of any Beatle record on his radio station. KTEE, in Idaho Falls, Idaho, announced a similar policy "until Lennon retracts." KZEE, in Weatherford, Texas, damned their songs "eternally." By week's end, dozens of U.S. stations and others as far away as Spain and South Africa had joined the boycott. Some even proposed bonfires where listeners might incinerate Beatle disks, books and memorabilia...
Death Confirmed. Lord Malcolm Douglas-Hamilton, 54, third son of the 13th Duke of Hamilton, a World War II R.A.F. group captain credited with discovering the German V-2 base at Peenemünde who later moved to the U.S. to run an aircraft supply business, then disappeared in Africa in July 1964, while delivering a twin-engined Beechcraft to the Congo; when a native came across the wreckage 9,000 ft. up Cameroon Mountain, just south of Nigeria, and the British Foreign Office reported identifying the body...
Peter D. Usher, a post-graduate student at the Harvard Observatory, said yesterday that the University should bring pressure to bear on alledged segregation at the Boyden Observatory in South Africa...