Word: anthem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lumumba, 35, wearing his customary blue suit and brown Italian loafers. He gazed at a blue, gold-starred Congo flag that had, all too obviously, been hand-sewn that morning, and a Marine Corps band struck up Stars and Stripes Forever-the commission assigned to write a Congolese national anthem has not yet come up with a tune...
...Captives. The 1,000-odd Frenchmen who are still living in Guinea are harassed at every turn. Some have been jailed for failing to stand up in theaters when Guinea's national anthem was played; one drew three months ("willful deterioration of Guinea's national heritage") for practicing with a revolver against the trunk of a mango tree. Airline officials have laid on 25 extra flights in the next few weeks to take care of Frenchmen and their families headed for home...
...Mclndoe, 59, British plastic surgeon who gave hundreds of burned, maimed R.A.F. and Allied pilots new faces, limbs and lives; in his sleep; in London. In appreciation of his wartime skills, some 600 of Mclndoe's "reconverted" pilots formed an alumni group called "The Guinea Pig Club." Its anthem: "We are Mclndoe's army,/We are his guinea pigs:/With dermatomes and pedicles/Glass eyes, false teeth and wigs...