Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Makarios, whom Harding had exiled, reappeared in the news. Though the archbishop himself is kept under "light escort," his secretary, out for a stroll, evidently dropped a letter in a mailbox addressed to the editor of a Kenya newspaper. Unopened and uncensored, the letter reached Nairobi, where the East African Standard promptly printed its complaint: Makarios and his three clerical companions were being treated like criminals for no greater offense than "expression of our love of freedom." In London a red-faced Colonial Office spokesman admitted that the four churchmen had gone on a one-day hunger strike at their...
...Getting the bugs out" is standard procedure whenever anything as complex as a new airplane is delivered. The trouble with Central African Airways' brand-new Vickers Viscount propjet was that the bugs would not go. They were not, in fact, airplane-type bugs at all, but a swarm of 75,000 bees which came hiving out of nowhere soon after the plane landed in Salisbury, to take up happy residence in one of its wings. Central's mechanics scattered, and to replace them, the airline called in a local beekeeper, Jack Garrett. Blow smoke or gas into...
Heroic Sailor Horatio Hornblower is a durable fiction stalwart who has seized his own creator, Britain's Novelist C. S. (The African Queen) Forester, and, ever bolstered by readers clamoring for more, will not let him go. In Britain's weekly Spectator, Author Forester last week disclosed the agony to which his hero has long subjected him. Excerpt from Ballade to an Old Friend: I set Your Lordship in the House of Peers- / But you have brought me many a quid pro quo / Because we've been together twenty years . . . / Yet horrid Horry mawkish matelot, / Obnoxious more...
Divorced. By Glynis Johns, 32, slant-eyed, South African-born British cinemactress (Miranda, The Court Jester): David Ramsey Foster, 34, Manhattan businessman; after four years of marriage, no children; in London...
While he has been relatively successful in Europe by carrying on inherited policies, he is making critical errors in other parts of the world. He seems to be applying somewhat outdated European answers--large military expenditures and strong collective security pacts--to Asian, African, and South American questions that demand far different solutions...