Word: africanizing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...installed him as President, Houphouët has created one of Black Africa's few real success stories, leading his tiny (127,800 sq. mi.) West Coast nation in a massive development drive that stresses solid economic achievement over showy industrial schemes. At a time when other African leaders are preaching a hazy socialism, Houphouët is a shrewd conservative who insists that "politics is the art of accommodating human and material realities...
...letter also said that the signers were interested "to know if this job has any restrictions attached to it based on race or national origin." Karunakaran said yesterday that, according to South African law, such restrictions were mandatory...
While South African Surgeon Christiaan Barnard, 44, pushed up his publicity chart in South America, some symptoms appeared back home-though not in the transplanted heart of recuperating Patient Philip Blaiberg (see MEDICINE). Barnard's wife Louwtjie, 39, in an interview with London's Sunday Express, had some heartfelt words about "this whole business of fame." Said Louwtjie: "The whole world is showering rose petals on Chris. He's getting fabulous offers, and women from all over the world write love letters to him. Suddenly he can do no wrong...
...Officials in some of the tense cities are simply trying to defuse emotions. Many superintendents find that one quick way to cool matters is to offer courses in Negro history or stress Negro cultural contributions in standard courses. In Philadelphia, some Negroes demanded that students be permitted to wear African dress to class; the administrators agreed, and that helped soothe the situation, although only three students actually donned the garb. Philadelphia now pays Negro youngsters and adult Negro leaders to attend suburban retreats, where they sound off their grievances to school officials. At Chicago...
SINS OF THE FATHERS: A STUDY OF THE ATLANTIC SLAVE TRADERS, 1441-1807, by James Pope-Hennessy. The author documents the vast complex of international crime that sold people for profit-from its origins on the 15th century African Gold Coast to the Abolition...