Word: african
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Africa. "The American is not long in Africa." says TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, "before he is taken aside and asked, 'Well, how long do you think this can last?' " After two years of reporting the ever-changing African story (including such major pieces as the cover story on Guinea's Sekou Toure), Prendergast finds that the question is in itself a kind of answer - a tacit admission by Africa's whites that they can resist and delay but cannot stop the move for increasing African rule. Africa has become a land of two timetables: the impatient...
Africa, too, was complaining about the French. Tunisia last week canceled its customs union with France. The Premier of the new Sudanese Republic threatened to break up France's African community if the French exploded their promised
...African passengers in the dirty brown coaches of the train chugging north through Bechuanaland were hot, tired, and packed in tight. But they were young and in unusually high spirits. They shouted and whistled. They had just completed their time in the gold mines near Johannesburg. Now they were headed home again to the Rhodesias, Nyasaland, and to points beyond. On their wrists were gaudy new watches. They wore purple shirts, cowboy hats, awkward new shoes...
Nuclear politics was also plain last week in the rising clamor against the French holding the tests at all. The Communists, of course, were in full cry against the idea ("a plot to terrorize African peoples into renouncing the struggle for freedom," screamed Moscow Radio), but more important were the protests of nine independent African states meeting in Monrovia, Liberia, who voted unanimously to condemn the experiments. Finally breaking their long silence on their Sahara plans, the French told the African states that the tests would take place in a "desolate region totally uninhabited ... in the dead center...
Also surprisingly, it was the conservative British who then took the radical step of giving the disease to a human volunteer. Dr. Leslie H. Collier and colleagues began with trachoma virus from the West African colony of Gambia. It proved almost identical with the Chinese strain and could also be grown in eggs. At London's Institute of Ophthalmology the researchers found their man: an old-age pensioner, 71, who had had both eyes removed because of injury and infection (not trachoma). Into his empty eye sockets the researchers inoculated their egg-grown trachoma virus. He had considerable discomfort...