Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...export markets, they might never have given him the job. By last week, when Nordhoff died of a heart attack at 69, Wolfsburg had grown from a hamlet to a bustling city of 85,000 as home base for West Germany's largest industry. With assembly plants from Africa to Australia, the bug was the new Model T, a ubiquitous symbol of the West German economic resurrection. Although Italy's Fiat last summer overtook VW as the world's fourth biggest automaker (behind the U.S. Big Three), Volkswagen's total sales last year reached $2.3 billion...
...Airways are almost always noticeably nervous. And with reason. Emblazoned with the national colors (green, yellow, red, white, black and blue) of its three partners (Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania), E.A.A. planes look like a wild trip even when they are on the ground. To make matters worse, travelers in Africa are usually aware that the line's 30,000-mile network covers some of the world's roughest terrain, including bush runways plagued with mud and giant anthills that can rise up between flights. Yet for all its drawbacks, E.A.A. is one of the world's most...
Harvard should indeed stand in shame for the paucity of its African course offerings--as a concentrator in African History at Yale, however, I ask whether courses on Africa are really any more "relevant" to blacks than to whites, at least in America. The lesson of South Africa should show what it's really like when black and white can't speak to each other without distrust--I hope this is not happening at Harvard, for there are such real problems ahead that will demand cooperation between these Negroes and those whites who want to create the true multi-racial...
...accepting gold as collateral for loans in foreign monies. For their part, London's five bullion dealers raised their commissions from 1? per oz. of gold traded (charged to both buyers and sellers) to 10? per oz. (charged only to buyers). The change is intended to induce South Africa the world's leading gold producer, to continue to sell through London...
...career," Rubenstein recalls today. "It didn't have any goals. It was inward looking rather than outward looking, and the Peace Corps seemed more exciting than selling shoelaces." The Peace Corps was where Rubenstein went. But then, with a yen for international economics developed during two years in Africa, Stanley returned home to enter New York University's Graduate School of Business Administration. Finishing this October with a master's degree, he hopes to work in the international field for either a major bank or the Commerce Department. In four years, Stanley Rubenstein has overcome his doubts...