Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Conservative Party. Yet most of the goals Macmillan set himself on entering 10 Downing Street were resoundingly achieved. Since succeeding luckless Anthony Eden after the 1956 disaster of Suez, Macmillan has aimed at 1) recementing the Anglo-American alliance, 2) easing the cold war, 3) freeing the African continent, and 4) obtaining Britain's entry into the European Common Market...
...first objective was the easiest, but the others were skillfully sought. Macmillan's personal initiative in going to Moscow set moving the machinery that eventually resulted in the test ban treaty. His "winds of change" attitude toward emerging African nationalism helped bring about the troubled birth of independence in Africa. Even the failure at Brussels, due solely to Charles de Gaulle's intransigent opposition to Britain's Common Market membership, may well be redeemed in the long...
Melancholiacs may get a lift from the clownish affenpinscher, a tiny cross between a terrier and a Pekingese, whose funny face is wreathed in a perpetual smile. Nonconformists will appreciate a Rhodesian ridgeback, an African lion dog that must be patted from tail to head because his fur grows that way. Heavy drinkers might find use for a puli, a shaggy sheepherder famed for its ability to guide strays back into the fold. And antique collectors will want the world's oldest dog, the saluki, which appears in Sumerian carvings as early as 6000 B.C. The Arabs call...
...which already share a common church school curriculum and operate joint missions abroad. Observers believe that a formal announcement of merger may be made in time to celebrate the 400th anniversary of John Calvin's death, May 27. > At Washington's Wesley Theological Seminary, representatives of the African Methodist Episcopal, African Methodist Episcopal Zion, and Christian Methodist Episcopal churches held a historic first consultation on the possibility of union. Leaders discovered no doctrinal disputes that would prevent the eventual creation of one Negro Methodist body with a combined membership of approximately...
Somebody is always trying to make a monkey out of modern art. This time it was Peter, 4½, a West African chimpanzee with a penchant for paint, who lives in Sweden's Boras zoo. Newsmen on the Goteborgs-Tidningen, a Goteborg daily, got Peter's 17-year-old keeper to give him a brush and oil paints. Peter took to daubing like a duck to water. He painted all over the floor; he painted all over his keeper; he even painted all over a few canvases. He ate whole tubes of cobalt blue, leading to the speculation...