Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BORN FREE. Fine photography displaces some of the African lore in Joy Adamson's delightful book about the taming and untaming of Elsa the lioness, and this filmed biography glows with dusty golden beauty, the lion's share of it supplied by the big cats themselves...
...seen both at Courreges in Paris and on Princess Meg; Ace Photographer David Bailey, 27, professional associate of Antony Armstrong-Jones; and Doug Haywood, 28, Chelsea's "in-nest" private tailor. The conversation revolves about the evils of apartheid because the waiter has brought a pack of South African cigarettes, but it lacks heat, since everyone agrees that Verwoerd is a boor. Besides, the big concern of the group is the Chelsea soccer team's match, scheduled for this afternoon. They are the team's most ardent rooting squad, meeting every Saturday for lunch and the trip...
Recently, any gathering of African leaders has tended to be as harmonious as a meeting of magpies. At Addis Ababa last month, eight of the 36 delegations to the Organization of African Unity walked out huffily over the question of seating Ghana's new government. Even such a simple task as forging a united opposition to white-ruled Rhodesia has proved beyond African capability. Pride and pretentiousness are part of the trouble, but last week in Nairobi, where Kenya's President Jomo Kenyatta and ten other African leaders sat down to discuss their problems, their goal was sensibly...
...their discussions, the leaders agreed to work toward an abolition of trade barriers between them but recognized that before federation could become a reality, each of their separate economies would have to be considerably strengthened. Simple as that may sound, it was the most sensible decision reached by African nations in many a wrangling month...
...Fullerton, Calif. Writing, said Forester, "is a toilsome bore"; yet, with an enforced daily ritual of 1,000 words, he managed in 40 years to publish 45 books on every subject from marionettes to the slave trade, all lucidly worded, all carefully researched. Two novels, Payment Deferred and The African Queen, became film classics, and his cynical 1936 study of the military mind, The General, was reportedly Hitler's favorite novel-dejr Führer took it seriously...