Word: clove
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...southeast, 80 miles from Kenya's coast on the tiny, palm-wreathed island of Zanzibar. To the accompaniment of a 41-gun salute, a red, gold and green flag was hoisted in Zanzibar Town, replacing the Union Jack and ending 73 years of British rule in the clove-scented protectorate of Zanzibar and neighboring Pemba Island. With a population of only 300,000 on the two islands, Zanzibar becomes Africa's smallest independent nation...
...explorers and a sanctuary for slavers, who carried their black cargo from the mainland beyond the range of avenging tribes. Swept by the monsoons, dhows from the Arabian peninsula brought Moslem raiders who installed Arab sultans and kept the island's black majority in bondage cultivating the clove groves (the island still supplies 75% of the world's cloves). After the British took over in 1890, troops kept the racial peace, but today race riots sporadically erupt. Though the Arabs make up less than 20% of the population, they control the economy, dominate the new government through...
This time, with Zanzibar choosing the government that will lead the protectorate to independence, the British took no chances. For the two-week voting and counting period, a full battalion of Scots Guards was flown in from Kenya. Spotter aircraft flew low over the clove plantations. Below, rural polling stations pegged white sheets to the ground as an all-well signal, kept red ones on hand in case of trouble. So great was popular enthusiasm for the election that on the nearby island of Pemba, known throughout Africa as the "Witchdoctors' University," leading practitioners were paid by both sides...
...image-notably the filters (which have now captured 56% of the U.S. market), the lengthy kings (20% of the market), and the menthols (14% ). Liggett & Myers has launched Lark with a "3-piece Keith filter," and Brown & Williamson is test-marketing Breeze filters with menthol and a "touch" of clove. American Tobacco has brought out menthol Montclair; last week Philip Morris started selling nationally its filter menthol Paxton, which comes in a thin plastic "humidor" case. Launching each new brand costs some $10 million, but most of them seem to burn out quickly nowadays. Among the recent failures...
...home a raft of ribbons. His polled (hornless) Hereford cattle, part of a herd of 300 raised on his 1,100-acre ranch 25 miles south of Hyde Park, grabbed off ten prizes, including a first and second place award. A manager runs the place, but Roosevelt, who bought Clove Creek Farms twelve years ago, spends most of his summers there and keeps in touch from his Washington law offices the rest of the year. "It's by far the best we've ever done," he gloated...