Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Deep in the African bush, between the Zambesi River and a vast game reserve where 2,000 elephants have been counted, firmness and fair play won a victory that force could never achieve. Last week 10,000 African miners were back at work and a nationwide general strike was averted because a British Prime Minister whom they trusted coupled a warning ("Mob rule will not be permitted") with a rare promise: "The gap between black and white standards of living must be narrowed as quickly as possible...
...miners at least $250 a month and its Negro miners an average in cash of $6.60 a month. Recently, the Negro union demanded a raise in their minimum rate (from 21? to 50?? a day), and when it made no headway, downed tools. Only 20 out of 10,000 African miners stayed on the job, and these the strikers called "whitelegs...
Both the Peabody Museum is more than a mere repository for everything from African fertility symbols to embalmed chimpanzees. The display cases which line its walls are only the outward aspect of the Museum's role in the University and in the study of anthropology. The Museum is far loss purely antiquarian and far more complex than it-may appear to most of its casual Sunday visitors. Like the figurative iceberg, mot of Peabody lies below the surface...
...Museum's most intensive recent projects has been its large-scale expedition to Southwest Africa, a trip which produced the first complete cultural study of the African Bushman. For the first time, an anthropological group entered the wild Bushman country and actually lived with a native tribe. Led by Lawrence Marshall, a native of Cambridge though not a member of the University faculty, the expedition during its last season spent no less than 14 continuous months in contact with a 500-member Bushman tribe...
...When Hemingway broke camp after five months of hunting and writing and set out for Africa's east coast to fish, he hired Pilot Marsh and his four-place Cessna. Last week Pilot Marsh left Nairobi for an African village named Masindi, planning to circle the spectacular Murchison Falls of the Victoria Nile on the way. But Marsh and the Hemingways never arrived at Masindi. A B.Q.A.C. plane, diverted from its route to search for them, found the Cessna in trees near the falls and reported that there was no sign of life to be seen...