Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SAVAGE STATE, by Georges Conchon. This scorching satire on race politics in Africa is written with an acetylene torch, should be read through goggles...
Right now, for example, we are distributing a bibliography on Negro Americans; coming soon are background studies-"TIME Guides"-to the U.S. Cabinet, space and Africa. Along with TIME itself, the Current Affairs Test, a Vacation Review Quiz, a Year-End Review in May, plus occasional maps and wall charts, they add up to a comprehensive and stimulating program designed to bring today's world into the classrooms...
...Ambassador Averell Harriman popped up in Poland so unexpectedly that he nearly caught U.S. Ambassador John A. Gronouski out of town. Special Presidential Assistant McGeorge Bundy was sent to Ottawa to see Canadian Prime Minister Lester Pearson, while Under Secretary of State Thomas Mann slipped down Mexico way. To Africa went G. Mennen Williams, dune-hopping from Rabat to Tunis-and eventually 14 countries, seeing such Africans as Nigeria's Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta...
Trends form fast in Africa, and Dahomey seemed to set a pattern last week in two nearby countries...
...variously known as schistosomiasis, bilharziasis, or simply snail fever. The more man does to increase his food supply, the more he nurtures the parasites and spreads the disease. Only a few years ago, the world had an estimated 100 to 200 million schistosomiasis victims spread across much of Asia, Africa and Latin America; now the estimate is 50% higher, largely because new irrigation canals and other waterworks have enlarged the parasites' habitat...