Word: calypso
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Stephen LeRoy Honore, 23, a bright, energetic Urbana, Ohio, Negro who sings calypso and has long been torn between his scientific talents and a burgeoning humanitarian impulse. Son of a semiskilled truck-plant laborer. Honore was the first Negro to be elected student-body president at Capital University, a Lutheran school in a suburb of Columbus, where he got his B.S. in physics and math. A 1959 trip to Castro's Cuba in a National Students Association delegation was an eye-opener: "I saw these people in the rural areas living under the most adverse conditions while the rich...
...province, drank bourbon with Meo tribesmen. One main job was bouncing into small villages by plane, Jeep or muleback to show propaganda films about Communist terrorism. Filmed in Laos, the movies were accompanied by up-to-date versions of the traditional mohlam ballads (a kind of Laotian version of calypso) and were tremendously popular...
Omnibus (NBC, 5-6 p.m.). "The Western Hemisphere-1971," an examination of the Western Hemisphere's prospects a decade from today. Calypso Singer Lord Invader provides an entertainment framework...
According to President Kennedy, the members of the council, which also includes Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt and calypso singer Harry Belafonte, "will bring to the Peace Corps the insight and experience of prominent individuals who are Interested in the role of the United States in world affairs...
...Specialists in a soft, syncopated West African dance that sprang up some five years ago, notably in Nigeria and Ghana. No two dancers use the same step. The music is any rolling, happy tune, though calypso makes a good accompaniment...