Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alarmed protest from the U.S., Britain and Belgium, which doubt the Congo's ability to stand alone. In Katanga province, 15,000 ex-gendarmes of ousted Secessionist Moise Tshombe have vanished into the bush; roaming bands of them stage highway robberies and raid villages to guzzle the local beer stocks. The 30,000-man Congolese army, whose 1960 mutiny ignited the civil war, has produced a nucleus of disciplined officers, thanks to its spunky commander, General Joseph Mobutu; no longer are unarmed civilians shot down at random in Elisabethville...
From Sweets to Steel. The Madhvanis profit almost every time an East African eats, drinks or washes. With companies that produce sugar, shortening, toffee, tea, soap, bottles and Nile brand beer, as well as a 20,000-acre sugar plantation in Uganda that is their biggest holding, the brothers last year earned $1,400,000 on sales of $14 million. This year in Tanganyika, they fired up East Africa's first steel rolling mill and are building a brewery and candy factory. In Uganda, judiciously allied with the government's development corporation, they will also build...
...month for an air-conditioned three-bedroom bungalow) that also house Aramco Arab executives' families. The Americans are taught to defer to Moslem sensibilities. Though the government permits Aramco's Americans to have Christian religious services, it forbids display of the Cross. Imports of whisky, beer and wine are banned, but the men who can refine crude oil have little trouble in distilling bathtub gin and Scotch, known locally as "the white" and "the brown...
...card, learned it without effort. Using these "one-word captions of the inner world," the kids went on to write a daily autobiographical story. Sample: "Mummie got a hiding off Daddy. He was drunk, she was crying." Or: "My Father got drunk, and He drank all The beer by He self, and we had a party...
...Early Beer. Yujiro, the son of a wealthy businessman who died in 1950, actually started his film career as a sailor. A motion-picture company was making a movie of a novel by Yujiro's brother, who arranged for Yujiro to work as an extra because he could handle a sailboat. Within a year, he was starring in a beach-bum opera called Love Affair at Kamakura. He had been a law student but he abandoned that, began to drink, and was soon in the 800-fan-letters-a-day class. Instead of dried seaweed and rice, he preferred...