Word: africas
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World War II liberated Tom Watson Jr. from his demons. His success in promoting the use of flight simulators earned him a job as aide and pilot for Major General Follett Bradley, the Army Air Forces' inspector general. Watson flew throughout Asia, Africa and the Pacific, displaying steel nerves and shrewd foresight and planning skills. He was set to fly for United Air Lines after the war when a chance conversation with Bradley changed his course. Informed of Watson's job plans, the general said, "Really? I always thought you'd go back and run the IBM company." A stunned...
KING LEOPOLD'S GHOST: A STORY OF GREED, TERROR AND HEROISM IN COLONIAL AFRICA By Adam Hochschild '63 Houghton Mifflin...
...honestly believe that South Africa is calledupon to bring unity, not only within South Africa,but between Africa and Europe, between white andblack, and to bring about the new millennium," hesaid...
...know that Mandela is an exceptionalleader. I wish he had talked a little more abouthis own experiences," said Mary Frances Mitchner,a graduate of the KSG who lived in Cape Town,South Africa, for a year...
...desperate to get back to South Africa,"he said. "I haven't lived in the new South Africayet."CrimsonMelissa K. CrockerOUT OF AFRICA:South AfricanAmbassador to the United States FRANKLIN SONNdiscusses the past and the future of his countryat a speech last night at the Kennedy School ofGovernment...