Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fair does handsomely by those with fat pocketbooks and fickle palates. Herring lovers will drool at the wide selection offered on Denmark's $6.50 cold board. The Spanish pavilion's Toledo and Granada restaurants dish up a numbing array of French and regional dishes. Africans (or at least Americans of African ancestry) in native robes serve groundnut soup and couscous ($4.50) in Africa's tree house, while the diner lucky enough to have a table on the balcony finds himself eyeball-to-eyeball with an inquisitive giraffe. Indonesia's seven-course, $7.75 dinner is spiced...
...still own much of the land -now a valuable tract on Lake Austin surrounded by prosperous-looking homes. But in 1945, said Miller, the Johnsons sold seven lots of that property, and at that time a new clause was inserted in the deed-prohibiting "any person or persons of African descent" from occupying the property except as domestic servants...
...Matter of Style. The opening salvos were hardly inspiring-or definitive. Wilson had long ago determined to launch Labor's campaign with a U.S.-style convention demonstration in Wembley Stadium. It turned out to be a long (5½ hours), amateurish pastiche of everything from African drums and Indian dancers to slides (which repeatedly jammed) of unemployed miners in the '30s. Deputy Labor Leader George Brown got a far bigger ovation than Wilson, who is a donnishly precise but uninspired orator...
...their success, the mercenaries remained in bad odor with the rest of black Africa. But Premier Moise Tshombe, in Nairobi for talks with the Congo Reconciliation Committee headed by Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, made it clear that though he wants black African help in quelling the rebellion, he would brook no "interference in the internal affairs" of his country. That seemed to mean the mercenaries would stay-for the time being at least...
Assemblage of Aphrodites. In the Katangese capital of Elisabethville, professionals of a different sort were performing. They wore such names as Alphonsine la Turbulente and Mathilde la Coquette, and they were competing for the title of Miss Katanga 1964. No ordinary beauty contest, this year's assemblage of African Aphrodites was hallmarked by the narcissistic story the girls planted in a local newspaper praising their own good looks. "My mirror says I can enter the competition without fearing the outcome," wrote Marie Framçoise la Sentimentale. "My fans say I am very seductive and I agree...