Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Farther down Diplomatic Row, a new African ambassador fretted over the guest list for his first dinner party. Too proud to ask the State Department's protocol section for help, he telephoned the Dean...
Bread & Water. This grim aspect of the holiday was bitterly marked by the Black Sash Organization, a handful of courageous white matrons, who oppose apartheid. Said their spokesman: "Family Day becomes a farce when so many of our African families are disrupted." Wearing their customary black sashes, members of the group went into retreat, sat in bare rooms on hard chairs for 24 hours of complete silence, eating only bread and water...
Hope is a bogus bwana who writes reams about his African adventures but has actually never been anywhere wilder than the Museum of Natural History. Drafted by the CIA, he is sent to the Congo to recover a moon capsule that went slightly off course. The Russians send Anita Ekberg, a bumptious intelligence agent, to waylay him. "If you are captured," Hope is instructed, "take a cyanide capsule. Death is instantaneous and clean." Hope gulps: "You mean, no side effects...
Corpsmen have piled up hundreds of these tiny triumphs-ranging from teaching the twist in Nyasaland to growing lettuce in Brazil to building badminton courts in Borneo. They have been treed by African buffaloes, serenaded by Filipino gigolos, adopted as sons by Southeast Asian aborigines, frightened by playful natives tossing pythons in their laps...
...imperialist press-and yet you say that you are fighting imperialism!" Strong-armed Russian males formed a human wall between the reporters and the Chinese as the exasperated chairman adjourned the meeting. The role of peacemaker fell to Guinea's Jeanne Martin, president of the Pan-African Women's Conference, who got the Chinese ladies off the platform by promising them a later chance to speak...