Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Recently, after a group of newsmen had bombarded Lacoste with questions, a U.S. correspondent strolled with Madame Lacoste through the gardens of Algiers' Palais d'Eté, rich with the strong colors and heavy scents of the North African spring. Enthused the correspondent: "Isn't this a wonderful place?" Madame Lacoste looked at him oddly, spat out: "I hate it, I hate it. My husband is a Socialist who spent all his life trying to help people. Now he is here killing people." Madame Lacoste burst into tears. For the French it was a tormented spring...
ETHIOPIA. Replacing the recently resigned Rev. Dr. Joseph Simonson, 52, Lutheran minister and publicist (and reportedly one of the U.S. diplomats who fell into Dick Nixon's "cornball" category during the Vice President's recent African trip): Don Carroll Bliss, 59, now foreign service inspector in the State Department and a hardworking, unobtrusive career officer who has done duty in Ottawa, London, Calcutta. Paris, Athens, Bangkok, Singapore and Djakarta during his 34 years with the foreign service...
...building itself, decorated with Teddy Roosevelt's African game trophies, oak paneling, and coat of arms, there was opportunity for a real Harvard club. Its basement held a large room with eighteen billiard tables where a member could obtain free instruction from a "well-known professional." A kitchen, a printing office, and rooms of The CRIMSON completed this floor. Above, in the hall now used as freshman dining room, was a living room. An athlete's training table occupied what is now the Union kitchen. Upstairs, a library of 25,000 volumes filled one room while on the third floor...
...Drugs made from curare (South American arrow poison) make surgery safer by relaxing patients' muscles. Similarly, reports the National Heart Institute, a drug named strophanthidin, from an African arrow poison, has been found to reduce the danger of heart stoppage during operations under hypothermia...
...extremely unfortunate, moreover, that the President will have to fight for basic foreign services when the expanded work in foreign aid and propaganda is needed. While NATO is falling apart and the African continent is gaining awareness of the international situation, the President has to fight for American libraries in Paris. There is so much to be done, that President has to fight for American libraries in Paris. There is so much to be done, that President Eisenhower should not encourage right-of-center forces in Congress to have the United States do less...