Word: balis
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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During the Middle Ages there rose in West Africa a kingdom of warlike tribes that came to be known as the Empire of the Mali (rhymes with Bali). Among its greatest rulers was a crippled boy named Sundiata Keita, who survived the murder of his eleven brothers and ascended the throne in 1230, to build a realm that was eventually to cover what is now Guinea, Senegal, the French Sudan and Ghana. Last week one of Sundiata's descendants, the Sudan's Modibo Keita, was in Dakar, capital of Senegal, as one of the architects of a modern...
...Bali, "island of the gods," 100 barefoot maidens in sarongs swiveled up and offered silver bowls filled with flowers to Yugoslavia's President Tito, 66, and Indonesia's President Sukarno, 57. Then host and guest retired to the new palace at Tampaksiring, where at sunset maidens splash naked in Roman-style baths beneath Sukarno's windows. With food and music furnished by Sukarno, champagne and slivovitz brought in off Tito's ocean-going yacht Caleb (Seagull), the two Presidents and their wives rang in the New Year in memorable fashion. Dancers trampled the palace lawn with...
...heretical brand of Marxism, alternately tried to ignore Tito's presence, belittle it, or by indirection attack it. Peking's press and radio denounced him as a "running dog of imperialism," and headlined the claim: DRUNKENNESS IN YUGOSLAVIA RANKS SECOND IN WORLD. After Tito had left Bali, the Red-lining Indonesian newspaper Bintang Timur accused him of "carrying out a Western mission...
...part was beefed up; Hammerstein spent two days writing the lyrics of a new song, and Rodgers retired to the Shubert Theater ladies' room (which during rehearsals was equipped with a piano) and wrote the music in less than six hours. (His record: South Pacific's Bali Ha'i, which he wrote in five minutes over after-dinner coffee in a crowded room.) Result of the Boston change: Don't Marry Me, one of the brightest numbers in the show...
...British colonies in the Caribbean Sea-13 islands and numberless neighboring islets that together form the palmiest tropical haven short of Bali Ha'i-last week ran off their first election as a federation headed for nationhood and independence. The voters picked 45 members for a House of Representatives; Her Majesty's Governor General, Lord Hailes, will now name the 19-member Senate. Princess Margaret will inaugurate the legislature April 22 in the new capital, Trinidad's Port of Spain-and The West Indies will be in business...