Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though most of the soldiers, including Gowon and Ojukwu, had never fired a shot in battle before, both sides claimed victories and at week's end filled the air waves with confident reports. Meanwhile, a number of African leaders, among them Jomo Kenyatta of Kenya and Julius Nyerere of Tanzania, assembled hastily in Nairobi to issue an appeal for an armistice...
...Bank of America promoted E. Frederic Morrow, 57, to vice president of its New York-based international subsidiary, specializing in foreign loans and business development. A former administrative assistant to President Eisenhower, Morrow has been with the bank three years, following executive service with the African-American Institute, a privately endowed educational-cultural agency. Seven years ago, when Morrow left the White House, one of the better positions offered him was as a used-car salesman at $50 a week with only Negroes for customers. "I was very frankly told," he recalls, "that business just wasn't ready...
Sonic Boon. Another chamber shows five screens arranged in the shape of a cross. In the most effective sequence, an African hunter peers out at the jungle, spear in hand, searching the waters for a crocodile. Around him the night seethes ominously. When at last he kills his quarry, the screens abruptly fill with white-eyed death masks that seem, for once, as terrifying to the viewer as they must be to the native. Labyrinth's narration is sometimes painfully portentous: "The hardest place to look is inside yourself, but that is where you will find the beast...
...shows him a 360° screen, then surrounds him with the sea, puts him in the middle of a hockey game, the Mounties on parade, Montreal's skyline, and a hundred other spectacular Canadian sights. The exhibit's faults are derived from its virtues. Except for the African chameleon, there are few living creatures who can see in back of their heads; in theory, a film in the round is a dazzling Disney process, but at any given moment, 180° of it are wasted...
...help in reaching a settlement based on peaceful coexistence. U.S. Ambassador Arthur Goldberg spoke up for Israel on the floor of the Assembly, and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk worked energetically in a series of private sessions with delegates from Latin America and 13 French-speaking African nations...