Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Well, Bobby was off solving Africa's problems. But if anyone had in fact delivered such an introduction in Washington last week, it would have applied with equal accuracy to a non-hirsute, non-Harvard winner named Jacob Koppel Javits, 62, senior Senator from New York, lifelong Republican and, like Bobby Kennedy, a loner athirst for bigger things...
...week, Daumier earned back the 12 francs, with interest, as the largest group of his works ever put up for auction went on the block. The 338 sculptures, drawings and lithographs were only a fraction of the collection of a French banker and founder of breweries through out North Africa named René Gaston-Dreyfus, 80, who began buying Daumiers before World...
Like all savvy salesmen, Unilever knows its territory. It blends local beliefs with modern marketing methods, promotes another familiar product by employing comely local women-each is known as "Miss Lux"-who often accompany the Omo man. While other private companies in Africa have been chivvied by dictators and political upheavals, Unilever has discovered many new markets and diversified in dozens of directions. With steadily rising sales, which last year reached $689 million, it retains its position as the largest private enterprise in tropical Africa. The United Africa Co. (U.A.C.), Unilever's principal subsidiary in its African group...
...white knight of black Africa is the "Omo man," who wanders from vil lage to village. Dressed in candent cot tons, he passes out sample boxes of Omo detergent, a fast-bubbling profit maker turned out by Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch combine that is the world's sixth biggest company. People grab up the giveaways, not only because each box top can be redeemed for ten more samples at the local Unilever-owned store, but also because the Omo man is plugged by radio ads that suggest he possesses supernatural powers. Say the commercials: "As a snail dies...
...acre plantation in the Congo. The company planted oil palms for its soap, later prospered by buying farm products from the Africans and selling household goods to them -pocketing a profit on both ends. Reaching out, U.A.C. also became the biggest merchandiser in the 14 former French colonies of Africa and got a substantial hold in East Africa...