Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rounding out the third week of his goodwill trip, Vice President Richard Nixon left behind the steaming, well-toured African continent, winged across the Mediterranean and touched down in Rome. The city lay gleaming and sparkling in the spring sunshine as the Nixon party settled into hotel suites and began once again the round of official functions...
...through the long tour Nixon rarely allowed himself to lose sight of his diplomatic job. And-as correspondents began to discover toward the end of the tour-the job was far more than handshakes and baby-patting. On his seven-nation (Morocco, Ghana, Liberia, Uganda, Ethiopia, Sudan, Libya) African go-round, he held down-to-earth closed-door conferences with African leaders, learned how to juggle tactfully the usual requests for foreign aid, came away each time satisfied that he had done something to explain the goals and hopes...
...Ford Foundation has given $800,000 to bring 40 prominent Asian and North African scholars to four American Universities...
Vice President Nixon ended his African goodwill tour in Tunis, Tunisia, yesterday, convinced American prestige is higher than he had anticipated in all the eight nations he visited during his 22-day trip...
...South African John Chalsty made a fine opportunist try five minutes later (16-0) but sloppy Crimson play enabled M.I.T. to score its only points exactly the same way, immediately after the ball was put back into play...