Word: buying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much as any African leader, Kwame Nkrumah relished the plush life that power can buy. The self-styled redeemer of Ghana nearly bankrupted his country by building palatial hotels, modernistic palaces and a cozy hideaway for his favorite mistress. Even after he was overthrown last February, it seemed likely that Nkrumah would continue to wield power and enjoy life as few exiles ever had. Guinea's President Sekou Touré gave Nkrumah a hero's welcome and startled the world by proclaiming that the visitor was coPresident. Said Touré: "Nkrumah belongs to all Africa, not just Ghana...
...liberal Roman Catholic quarterly by Edward Keating, 41, an articulate San Franciscan with a sizable inheritance. When the magazine went nowhere, Keating readily gave up religious commentary for political muckraking. "Quite frankly," says Hinckle, "there weren't enough Catholic laymen to write for and to buy the magazine. Besides, we got bored with just the church...
...committee argue that there is ample precedent for such a boycott: most Protestant churches refuse to invest in companies that manufacture alcohol or tobacco products. Boston's Episcopal Bishop Anson Phelps Stokes Jr. believes that the churches should no more support apartheid, even implicitly, than they should buy "real estate that was being used as a brothel...
...major lawmaking body and include 150 members, and a Senate that is expected to become a senior advisory body, with an estimated 30 "elders." With bicameralism, said the committee chairman who recommended it, "the people will have a wide representation, and it will be difficult for the government to buy up the legislature...
...producers and Japanese businessmen check with Astrologist Pauline Messina before boarding their planes. But most folk who follow their horoscopes in the newspapers or magazines hardly take them seriously. As one enthusiast explains, "It's an institution for buttressing opinions and explaining mishaps. According to the magazine you buy, you can always find a comfortable explanation to soften the blow of anything from infidelity to a bumped fender. If you don't find your answer, just change magazines...