Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...white, menial laborers are paid the traditionally low South African wage...
Defiant Delinquents. Like the West, the East is having its problems with irrepressible youth. Last May ten young Hungarians, aged 17 to 20, were tried for almost everything in the book-rape, gambling, smuggling, drug pushing, currency violations, idolizing the West, anti-Semitism and hatred of visiting African students. The accused were all part of a 200-member gang that haunted downtown Budapest and augustly called itself the "Inner City...
...resort of Nyali Beach in Kenya, 22 American mathematicians are hard at work on a project into which the U.S. AID agency has poured a million dollars. Their quarters are in a white stucco hotel overlooking the deep blue of the Indian Ocean, and their job is to help African countries prepare modern math textbooks. Said William Martin, 55, of M.I.T., the head of the workshop: "Don't go thinking the sponsors aren't getting their pound of flesh." His wife echoed this sentiment by describing a dance at the hotel: "There were the locals twisting and smooching...
...last week's vote, the Ten agreed not only to continue seeking some kind of reform but also to broaden deliberations by including the 20-member executive board of the International Monetary Fund. Half the board is drawn from Group of Ten nations, but the other members represent African, Arab, Asian and Latin American countries, which will now be able to insert poor-nation needs and notions into the debate and perhaps break the longtime deadlock...
...Griffith, United was losing $100,000 a week by 1951. Lawyers Benjamin and Krim (law partners of Louis Nizer) took over, encouraged talented independent producers to make good films for United to bankroll and distribute. The list has since included such successes as Marty, High Noon, The African Queen, West Side Story, Tom Jones, and lately The Russians Are Coming and Khartoum. United backed two Beatle pictures, has made $10 million on them. On four James Bond films, its $13 million investment has so far returned $124 million...