Word: africanization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...yellow atrophy of the liver. The virus had damaged so many liver cells that metabolic wastes were piling up and poisoning him. Alarmed doctors notified John's father, Peter F. Bayne, a school administrator in Claremont, Calif., and the Peace Corps called on Dr. Charles Trey, a South African-born research physician now at Harvard. Trey managed to get to Bombay in two days. He estimated that 90% of young Bayne's liver had been knocked out and gave him only a 10% chance of survival. Even that depended on the treatment that Trey had devised, in which...
...simple images that Camus rediscovers in the essays are the sun and sea of the North African shore, his remembrances of family, and his feeling for the physical life of the Mediterranean people. They illustrate the philosophical turn of mind that alienated him from his Algerian countrymen, whose basic attitude toward living left no room for abstract speculation. An old woman buys her own tomb and grows to love it. This teaches Camus the value of the present moment: "Let me cut this minute from the cloth of time. Others leave a flower between pages, enclosing in them a walk...
...applicants were black. However, Dr. Potter emphasized that the Committee was seeking students from all disadvantaged minorities. He said that the Committee had contacted American Indian and Mexican-American groups this summer. Although the Med School has several African students, there are no American blacks in its first year class this year...
...their zeal, Tanzanians have turned up some curious threats to their cultural independence, and sparked a lively debate. Football, declared one letter to an editor, is "a degrading product of colonialism and elite European boarding schools. African culture never produced such a clownish performance." On the other side, an upholder of law and order wrote that "the Wall Street mob of American society that watched a busty woman is more desirable than the unruly mob that besieged terrified girls in the Kariakoo market...
...Americans dominated track and field, winning 15 events, as 15 world records were broken and two others tied. Curiously, the stiffest competition came not from the Russians, who proved unaccountably weak, but from three African nations-Kenya, Ethiopia and Tunisia-which among them won every running event from the 1,500 meters to the traditional 26-mile 385-yd. Greek marathon. Kansas' Jim Ryun, the 1,500-meter world record holder, could only moan, "My God, how it hurts," after losing to Kipchoge Keino, who ran it in 3 min. 34.9 sec.-second fastest time ever recorded...