Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wait with trepidation and pride until Africans break the bonds of tyranny," Allard Lowenstein commented last week in reaction to the disappointing decision handed down by the International Court of the Hague over apartheid in Southwest Africa...
DISCOVERY '66 (ABC, 11:30-noon). Off to Kenya's Nairobi National Game Park to examine Africa's vanishing wild life and the efforts being made to preserve...
...that credentials be mailed to Hallstein. Hallstein in turn refused to go into mail-order diplomacy, and the line of waiting unaccredited diplomats grew until it reached 17. Finally, last week, both sides gave in to a compromise that satisfied De Gaulle's main point. Representatives of South Africa and South Korea in mufti slipped quietly into Hallstein's office, were received by the EEC president in a grey business suit, departed without so much as a cup of coffee...
Nancy Sinatra's These Boots Are Made for Walking is among the top ten on record charts in Mexico City, Rome, Bonn and Geneva. Batoman is wowing them on TV in Tokyo and playing in Buenos Aires and London as well. Bonanza is big not only in Africa but in the Middle East and Europe; it is one of South Vietnamese Premier Ky's favorite programs. Pictures of Rock Hudson and Doris Day are pinned on the walls of Philippine homes right beside the family crucifix, and a Budapest newspaper recently exhorted its readers to imitate the manners...
...still essentially baroque beneath all the surface trappings. Japan, for all its material modernization, remains quintessential Japanese in its process of thinking, its personal relations, its social organization. Moreover, though technological change can and does profoundly affect societies, modernization is mostly confined to the big cities, particularly in Asia, Africa and Latin America, where the heartlands remain relatively untouched by progress. Even in the cities, there is a distinct time lag; some of the more jarring aspects of American culture continue to flourish abroad even while they are on the decline in the U.S., where the general level of sophistication...