Word: africanism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Montgomery, Ala.'s Rev. Martin Luther King, the Vice President remarked : "I recognized you from your picture on the cover of TIME . . . That was a mighty fine story about you." The two promised to meet again in Washington, and Nixon went about the vice-presidential business of winning African friends for the U.S. See NATIONAL AFFAIRS, With Pat & Dick in Africa...
Sweeping across African skies in his DC-6B, Richard Nixon got the word that protocol would demand top hat. cutaway and striped trousers at the next stop of his African good-will tour in Liberia. Thus, when the plane landed (with one ailing engine), the Vice President of the U.S., already sweltering in his formal attire, and his summer-clad wife debarked into sizzling sunshine, shook hands all around. After the greetings they stepped quickly to an air-conditioned Cadillac for the 50-mile trip to the capital of Monrovia. The new comfort did not last...
...legions settled in Seville) to dark Senegal and the swamps of the Niger. The new kingdom of Morocco occupies about a fifth of this old Almoravide empire. The remainder of the area is divided between Spain's Rio de Oro, a corner of Algeria, the huge French West African province of Mauritania, and a chunk of the French Sudan reaching a few hundred miles north of legendary Timbuktu. Except for the coastal strip it is sun-scorched desert, rich in minerals, which the French, since they finally subdued the tribes in 1934, have mapped but have hardly tapped...
...Hard put to find a suitably African name for their new nation, the Ghanaians picked that of a black empire which flourished during the Middle Ages in the neighborhood of Timbuktu on the grounds that some of their ancestors probably came from there...
Most of these diverse interests are managed for the government by enti, autonomous administrations which today number more than 1,000. (Exactly how many more nobody knows.) Perhaps 200 of these corporations, e.g., the Imperial African Transport Society and the ente in charge of Albanian banks, have long since outlived their functions and represent a net loss to the Italian taxpayers. But even more of a menace to Italy's economic health are such aggressive, purposeful enti as E.N.I., the burgeoning oil and gas corporation which, under the leadership of hard-driving Enrico Mattei (TIME...