Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Asian-African conference opens at Bandung next week, the question of United States policy in the Far East is certain to be near the top of the agenda. Communist China can be expected to treat the conference as a major step in its effort to discredit the United States in the eyes of uncommitted Asians. Unfortunately, Chinese charges of American warmongering in the Far East may well find willing listeners even among non-Communists...
...inclined this way-or that"-in the cold war. "The world must realize that I am an Indian, and I am inclined only towards India." The best guess was that Nehru was just practicing the Song of India he intends to croon at the mid-April conference of Asian-African leaders at Bandung, Indonesia, where he must share top billing with that old spotlight-stealer, Red China's Chou Enlai. Nehru's ambition is to establish an "area of peace" around the Indian Ocean. Taking Chou En-lai's professions of peace at face value, Jawaharlal Nehru...
Divorced. Sam Spiegel, 51. Hollywood producer (African Queen, On the Waterfront); by Lynne Baggett, 28, sometime Hollywood bit actress: the day after his Waterfront won eight Oscars (see CINEMA), and two months after her release from a 50-day prison term in the hit-and-run death of a nine-year-old boy; after nearly four years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...assigned to Brazzaville in 1945, was back in France within a few months with heart trouble and a doctor's warning that the tropics were not for him. But St. Anne's (started as a memorial to French soldiers) needed money, and Father Bureth organized some unemployed Africans in France into a song-and-dance group. He took them on a triumphal tour of the country, and francs rolled into the church-building fund. Between shows. Father Bureth taught French church choirs the Canoemen's Mass (written especially for St. Anne's by a French musicologist...
...Zulus and their attack on a wagon ring; 6) a savage fight between two men armed with bullwhips; 7) a cloudburst, during which a huge tree is felled by lightning; 8) the gruesome amputation of a leg; 9) another formal ball, this time in a South African mansion; 10) a battle royal in a mining town...