Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Gemini returned to docile perfection. Advised by Houston that they were to bring the spacecraft back to earth in an area 500 miles southeast of Okina wa, Armstrong and Scott fired their four 2,500-lb. retrorockets over Central Africa at 9:45 p.m. E.S.T. and skillfully guided Gemini 8 toward its splashdown...
Should she stay in show biz or should she go to Africa and be a medical missionary? After all, she has been giving injections to grapefruits, practicing for the day when she can inoculate a native without flinching. Should all that citrus go to waste? Helping and hindering her in her decision are Ricardo Montalban as a priest, Greer Garson as her mother prioress and Ed Sullivan as himself. Sullivan, who has but two expressions, intense pain and acute embarrassment, gets ample opportunity to display both...
...accepted the appointment because he "wanted to get back to the books" after having been a college administrator for ten years. Part of that time was spent in Africa, where Parry had much to do with the orderly preparation for British withdrawal from Nigeria...
...principal of what is now "the largest university in Black Africa, the University of Ibadan," Parry helped to create in Africa a university similar in many respects to Cambridge. He recalls that "we drove the students hard and they took their studies very seriously." Admission was competitive--only about 15% of the applicants were accepted. "We set out to catch the ablest boys, since the courses we designed were every bit as hard as those at Harvard or Cambridge...
...Parry does not think that the new regime will institute any radical changes. "My son, who works for an oil company in West Africa, says that life has changed little in Nigeria since the revolt--the professional administrators and civil servants still run the country," he relates...