Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...able to handle the courses in a modest office in Santa Barbara, cutting stencils and running off lessons on a mimeograph machine. As a result of the story, their mail tripled, monthly enrollment in the navigation course more than doubled, franchise and translation requests came in from Europe and Africa, and sales of a sextant they supply to students went up dramatically. The Simonsens are now expanding business to include a "Nautical Book a Month Club," an air-navigation course, and sales of other nautical aids such as a mini-compass and a "Course Converter"-a device that takes...
...which Consists of the verdant, volcanic island of Fernando Poo, a few other smaller islands and the larger, rain-forest mainland province of Rio Muni. Thanks to steady help from Madrid, Fernando Poo boasts bountiful harvests of coffee, bananas and cocoa. It has a model road system, one of Africa's highest rates of primary school attendance (89%) and per capita income ($246)-and probably its biggest leisure class. When the Spanish government gave the island's Bubi tribesmen their own farms, many of the placid, easygoing natives simply leased the land to Spanish and Portuguese settlers, then...
...sunny Canary Islands, 72 miles off Africa's northwest coast, Spain has created a bustling tourists' paradise, complete with golf courses, luxury ho tels and fancy restaurants. Spain's three other territories - Ifni on the West Coast and the cities of Ceuta and Melilla on the Mediterranean - are little more than army bases; yet even there, Spain has taken pains to make friends with neigh boring Arabs, sometimes offering them jobs and free medical care...
Portugal, Rwanda, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somali Republic, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Syria, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Republic, United Kingdom, United States, Upper Volta, Uruguay, Venezuela, South Viet Nam, Yugoslavia, Zambia...
...title tells it all. Live for Life has the air of a home movie all about The Fun Times We Had--watching a boxing match, chasing wild animals in Africa, skiing in the Alps--with something of a story thrown in for free...