Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bright and sunny morning, and a great crowd had gathered on the grassy expanse of Leopoldville's Grand Place. Small boys were perched in trees to get a better view, and teen-agers jammed the roof of the nearby African culture center. In the center of the square, cordoned off by police, stood a makeshift scaffold. A red circle had been painted in the middle of its collapsible wooden platform. A strong, rough rope hung down from the crossbar above. A row of open coffins, trimmed with gold and lined with white sheets, lay waiting on the ground below...
Died. James Woolf, 46, acidly witty British producer who in 1949 joined with his brother John to form Romulus Films Ltd., responsible for some of cinema's best (Room at the Top, The African Queen, I Am a Camera)', of a heart attack; in Hollywood...
...name): glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G-6-PD). And, strangely, a deficiency of G-6-PD is not necessarily bad. It confers a definite survival value in areas where malaria is rife, and it has evolved into a common condition among the peoples of the Mediterranean basin and West African Negroes. But if these malaria survivors take to modern medicine, they often find their enzyme peculiarity a grave liability. Widely prescribed drugs may throw them into a devastating, life-threatening anemia...
...childhood friends, South African Attorney Abraham Fischer seemed destined for great things. The son of a former judge-president of the Orange Free State, Fischer studied at the best schools, went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar, displayed a keen mind and a deep social conscience. Last week, Fischer stood in the dock of the Pretoria Palace of Justice, charged with 15 counts of Communist activity and conspiring to commit sabotage, fraud and forgery under South Africa's Suppression of Communism...
Fischer was no sooner sentenced than thousands of poster-waving university Students (WHERE HAVE ALL THE FREEDOMS GONE?) took to the streets in Durban, Johannesburg, Cape Town and Grahamstown, protesting still another example of South African justice. The recipient this time was Ian Robertson, 21-year-old president of the 20,000-member National Union of South African Students, who was suddenly put under a five-year ban that prohibits him from joining in N.U.S.A.S. activities, leaving the Cape Town municipal area and teaching, once he gets his law degree. Robertson's apparent crime was to invite Senator Bobby...