Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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That ended the censure debate. Nkrumah's black supporters threw papers in the air and shouted "Ghana! Ghana!"-the name of an ancient West African black empire which Nkrumah has chosen for the new state (TIME, July 30). Then the Nkrumah supporters broke into their party's battle song, Victory for Us. Men representing the country's Ashanti and Northern Territories opposition sat silent. Their acting leader said, however, that his side welcomed the announcement, and next day the opposition parties agreed to join Nkrumah in working out a new constitution reconciling their "regional aspirations" with...
Sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee, the conference will discuss the "African Revolution and American Responses." It features Jean Fairfax, recent college secretary of AFSC in New England, Tom Mboya, general secretary of Kenya Federation of Labor Willaim Worthy, CBS news commentator and Nieman Fellow...
...Crusaders against alcoholism (some teetotalers, some devotees of moderate drinking) gathered in Istanbul, sadly concluded that with few exceptions, such as Italy and India, most of the world's nations are getting wetter. Chief offenders: France (accused of boosting alcohol consumption in her African colonies by dumping surplus wines and brandy there) and the U.S., with a 44% increase in alcoholism in 13 years, and a rise in beer consumption from 8 to 16½ gallons a year per capita since...
BOEING JETLINERS will probably be bought by Britain's BOAC and other Commonwealth airlines. Boeing is in line to get order for 17 planes from BOAC, another three from South African Airways to add to seven jets recently sold Australia's Qantas Empire Airways. Rumors also buzz that Boeing will get order for 19 more 707s from Howard Hughes's Trans World Airlines, which has already ordered eight...
...better fitted than Nobel Prizewinner Pauling to probe this problem. In 1949 he crashed through the barrier separating chemistry from medicine when he headed a team of researchers who pinpointed the cause of sickle-cell anemia. Medical men had long known that this disease, common among African peoples (and their U.S. descendants), was inherited in some fashion, but that was all they knew. Pauling showed that the abnormal, short-lived, sickle-shaped red blood cells, characteristic of the disease, contained Hemoglobin S, a hitherto unknown form of hemoglobin that differs in molecular structure from the normal Hemoglobin A. More important...