Word: african
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Atlantic Overseas Edition, printed in various European and African capitals, from full-page negatives flown from here...
...Roger John Brownlow Keyes), 73, doughty, fire-&-ice British naval hero of the famed World War I raids on Zeebrugge and Ostend, organizer of World War II's "butcher-and-bolt" Commandos (his son, Lieut. Colonel Geoffrey Keyes, was killed in a Commando raid on Rommel's African HQ); of cardiac asthma; at his estate in Buckingham...
Last week in London the trusteeship committee of the United Nations Preparatory Commission was discussing a proposal which would permit African natives to elect spokesmen to appear before UNO. Up jumped South Africa's hardbitten, outspoken George Heaton Nicholls. Cried he: "To invite natives to get up on platforms and express their wishes would result in chaos in Africa...
...last November, Friend's comet-of the seventh magnitude, just beyond naked eye visibility-has followed its looping course to perihelion (closest approach to the sun) and is zooming toward the outer reaches of the solar system. This week, as the comet emerges from behind the sun, South African astronomers who are on their toes may get a brief look-probably the last look from the earth...
...most lethal rat-killer known is odorless, tasteless "1080" (TIME, Sept. 17), recently developed by the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service. The same basic poison was simultaneously isolated as the toxic element in a deadly South African plant called "Gifblaar." But 1080, like atomic energy, is almost too hot to handle. It is ideal for murderers. A human victim, without smelling or tasting a thing, could probably be done in by 1/50...