Word: cements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the West was slow with offers of aid, Leftist Touré simply turned to Communist countries. Last week Guinea's warehouses bulged with surplus East German cement, with 200 new Praga and Skoda cars just in from Czechoslovakia, and with the secret cargoes of Russian and Czech transport planes unloaded under guard. Communist money was building a huge new printing plant for Guinea, to be followed by a powerful radio station. Communist Czechs operate Conakry's airport and harbor, and a Communist Pole is Touré's adviser on public works. Even the Red Chinese were...
...without schools, called the people together on a cow's horn, exhorted them to help her build a 100-student school so their children will be "good for something." Then, in wide-brimmed white hat and apron, outworking her helpers, she hacks out a foundation, cuts timber, makes cement blocks, installs plumbing. In between, she keeps the children busy planting gardens, teaches adults how to read, write, cook and stay healthy, and every so often breaks out her guitar for singing and dancing. "I open their eyes," says she. "Then if they won't follow my advice...
...Cairo would have no objections to letting cargoes pass in future if title to Israeli exports had already passed to foreign purchasers, and if imports were not yet technically Israeli-owned. Israel disliked this compromise, but observed it. Last week a Greek freighter fulfilling Hammarskjold's conditions-Israeli cement purchased f.o.b. Haifa by an Eritrean importer-was stopped in Port Said. Hammarskjold's own prestige and assurances were thus at stake. As Hammarskjold set off on a tour of Africa, he scheduled a new stop at Cairo and another session with that fellow Nasser...
...cement-plant foreman and Canadian-born-like nearly every other player in the N.H.L.-Hull first handled a stick at the age of four back in Point Anne, Ont. By the time he was 14, he looked so good just playing junior-league hockey in Belleville, Ont. that he caught the eye of a touring Black Hawk scout, who reserved the likely prospect for Chicago by signing him to an option contract for a bonus so small that he now says: "I'm ashamed to mention it." Pro hockey is one of the toughest of all sports, but Hull...
CONCRETE CRIME, by Manning Coles (191 pp.; Crime Club; $2.95), places Tommy Hambledon, the British Foreign Office's top raincoat man, in grave danger of being submersed in a barrel of water, sand, and quick-hardening cement. But the henchman who intends to put him there makes a false hench, and guess who ends in the barrel? The trail leads to Paris, then Dijon and points worse. Author Coles's story is diverting enough, even if some of his swashes are carelessly buckled...