Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recondite to accomplished Scrabblers. Gnus are African antelopes, nix is accepted dictionary slang for "nothing" or "I don't allow," a zax is a sharp-pointed tool used in roofing, tut is a mild chiding exclamation...
Never before had Daniel Malan sounded so much like his ancient enemy, the late, great Jan Christian Smuts. But the resemblance was purely temporary. When the opposition United Party sought a pledge of continued Commonwealth "membership," Malan said no. Instead, he would assent only to South African "cooperation" and under these conditions...
...better ways to fight African sleeping sickness were already being developed. Back in 1906, Belgium's King Leopold II had offered a $4,000 prize for a means of delivering his African subjects from "this terrible plague." Working not for the prize but for humanity, investigators at Manhattan's Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research began an intensive search for a cure. Drs. Walter A. Jacobs and Michael Heidelberger juggled chemical groups into new molecular combinations. In 1915, they found tryparsamide. Physicians Wade H. Brown and Louise Pearce concluded from tests on animals that this was just what they...
Matter of Costs. Aside from taxes, producers have their own reasons for making pictures overseas. Some movies (African Queen, Moulin Rouge, Roman Holiday) need authentic foreign settings. By making pictures in Europe, a few of the big producers, e.g., MGM, have put their blocked foreign currency to work. Many independent producers, finding it hard to raise money in the U.S., have stretched their dollars further abroad. And such unions as Roy Brewer's Film Council (TIME, April 27) have helped boost film costs skyhigh; labor costs overseas are anywhere from 20% to 50% below the U.S., and foreign sets...
...story of their blundering journey is told by Author Benuzzi with both vividness and restraint. The nervousness of fugitives untrained to the African bush, the encounters with an elephant and a rhinoceros, the hasty retreat from a beast which turned out to be a cow, are all skillfully exploited for suspense. But the real challenge began only as the three men pressed higher on Mount Kenya itself...