Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King and I, pointed out the significance of these admissions: "The increasing importance of Asia and Africa." In today's 79-nation U.N.. the balance of voting power has shifted from the 20 Latin American republics, which generally voted with the U.S.. to the Asian-African members, which, despite the absence of Red China and Japan, now number 25. No longer can the Western allies, balked in the Security Council, count upon prevailing in the General Assembly. By adding their votes to those of the nine Communist members, the new nations of Asia and Africa can henceforth...
...FIRST AFRICAN ALUMINUM source will be developed by Canada's Aluminium Ltd. at cost of $100 million for plants, mines, railroad, port facilities. World's second-biggest aluminum producer (first: Alcoa) will exploit bauxite mines in wilds of French. Guinea, begin reducing bauxite to alumina...
...became assistant private secretary to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden. First foreign assignment: Peking. While chargé d'affaires in Athens in 1941, he escaped the Nazis by sailing for Crete on a yacht, was rescued when the yacht was sunk by German planes. During assignment to Allied North African Headquarters, he worked with many Americans now in key spots in Washington, including Dwight Eisenhower. Later he became British head of the Anglo-American political section of Allied Control Commission in Italy, then, in 1944, troubleshooter in liberated Greece. After the war, he helped reorganize Britain's Foreign Service...
...while it was thought that there was a significant difference between animal and vegetable fats. The countries where coronary disease is the No. 1 killer (the U.S., Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand) consume much animal fat, but people among whom the disease is rare (southern Italians, Asians, African natives) eat little animal fat, far more vegetable oils...
...animal fat, such as seal oil, they have one of the world's lowest coronary disease rates. Dr. Bronte-Stewart was carrying on diet experiments with the Bantu; there were no Eskimos handy for him to test in South Africa. But there were seals around the South African coast, so why not feed the Eskimo staple-seal oil-to the Bantu? Bronte-Stewart tried it, and found that the oil acted as a kind of cholesterol depressor. After a high-fat diet-ten eggs a day-the Bantu's blood cholesterol rose sharply, dropped again when seal...