Word: bushings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Personally, John Kenneth Galbraith is almost as popular in India as Ed Reischauer in Japan. Natural American Galbraith has shucked business suits and neckties for casual sports shirts and white-hunter-style bush jackets. In his eagerness to talk to villagers in the middle of a paddyfield, he has even shucked his shoes. One of Galbraith's minor but highly welcome public relations gestures was to wheedle a $15,000 Ford Foundation grant so that he could distribute U.S. books to Indians. Jawaharlal Nehru took a bundle on his last vacation, reported that he was particularly tickled...
Leroy Was Here. Shortly before midnight on New Year's Eve, an S.A.O. detachment opened fire on Villa Bel Air with bazookas and machine guns. Leroy's men replied with automatic arms and hand grenades. Fleeing, the attackers left behind them one dead S.A.O. terrorist under a bush. He was the first open battle casualty of the S.A.O., and is already being hailed among ultras as the No. 1 martyr of Algérie Française. Colonel Leroy, keeping his own casualties secret, moved out next night to another secret headquarters...
CONGO (See Cover) The tom-tom must beat this night to call our warriors to the fight. Everywhere in the bush the army of warriors must answer this ancestral call...
...First Millionaire. In the bush, few if any of the warriors took up their weapons, but this was due perhaps as much to bad communications as to disobedience; although Tshombe has virtually no support among the Balubas in the northern half of Katanga, he is strongly backed by the proud Lunda people of the south. It was there, in the Lulua River country along the Angola border, at Sandoa, that Moise Tshombe grew to manhood, the first son of the region's richest tribesman. His father Joseph was a thriving merchant with a string of 16 village stores that...
This was war, and although Katanga's President Moise Tshombe was away in Paris, Katanga Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo proclaimed: "We are all here, resolved to fight and to die if necessary. The United Nations may take our cities. There will remain our villages and the bush. All the tribal chiefs are alerted. We are savages; we are Negroes. So be it. We shall fight like savages with our arrows...