Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such tactics quickly earned Nyerere the title of "the god with the magic eye," also brought in observers from such distant monolithic states as Russia and Hungary to watch Nyerere's Tanganyika African National Union (TANU) party pull off a far more impressive feat: free, contested elections...
Where can a bargain hunter buy three live elk for $500 each, a small-scale Mississippi paddle-wheeler for $7,500, or a connoisseur's collection of African voodoo drums and five-foot spears? Answer: at the New York World's Fair, where the greatest sale of surplus goods since the big postwar auctions of military gear is about to take place. As the Oct. 17 closing date approaches, the selloff by the Fair's 300 exhibitors is beginning in earnest...
Everyone wanted something as the world's money managers gathered in Washington last week for the annual meeting of the International Monetary Fund. African financial chiefs approached the IMF with requests for more support. Asian delegates asked the U.S. Government to underwrite the proposed Asian development bank. Among the 2,000 moneymen from 103 nations who crowded into the Sheraton Park Hotel, such bankers as the U.S.'s David Rockefeller and Robert Roosa, Britain's Viscount Harcourt and Italy's Ettore Lolli swapped shop talk and negotiated private deals...
...notion that the diplomat's life abroad is cushioned by platoons of perfectly trained servants, Villard lays it to rest by describing the time that a West African houseboy was shown how to garnish a wild boar for an important dinner. "Consternation reigned," says Villard, "when the dish was triumphantly brought in, apple clenched firmly between the houseboy's teeth, parsley protruding from his nose...
...brace of bestsellers about Africa in transformation. The story of the hero's public life is superficial but exciting; the details of his private life are clinical and, with the hero-author parallel continually implied, embarrassing. As for the women in his life, Ruark compares them to the African honey badger, the meanest animal in the world: "It does not go for the jugular-it goes for the groin...