Word: cocoa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gaudy tour of Cocoa Beach, the community nearest Cape Canaveral, enraged the citizens of Cocoa Beach but showed the rest of the country the phenomena that spring up around the space age's launching pads: beatniks swinging as if hooked on liquid oxygen, splashy motels by the mile, a real estate agent selling outback lots for $1,595 an acre, a wiggly blonde singing in a nightspot about her A-O.K. flight in a rocket with her spaceman. Then he switched to Britain's cheap-jack sex-and-crime newspapers and an abrasively candid interview with Cecil...
Kangaroo Courts. To ward off financial chaos, Nkrumah has decreed a strict austerity program. Stiff currency controls have stifled capital outflow. Subsidies to cocoa farmers were cut by a third, and crippling new purchase taxes of from 10% to 67% were levied on imported goods from clothes to automobiles. But the taxes have only succeeded in cutting off imports; from July to September, customs duties were $3,000,000 less than expected. A new compulsory savings scheme requires wage earners making more than $28 a month to give the government 5% of their pay in exchange for government bonds; corporations...
...friendship to one of Africa's most European-minded rulers: President Félix Houphouet-Boigny. The Ivory Coast was celebrating its first anniversary of independence after more than a century of French rule. Arriving in Abidjan, capital of the New Mexico-sized nation of coffee and cocoa plantations, Attorney General Kennedy was met at an airport reception with red carpet and tribal dances. Manfully (since he facetiously says that it took him eight years to complete second-year French in school). Bobby Kennedy delivered a graceful speech in French. (He was helped by phonetic notes on words like...
...life. The Cabinet was shaken up, army officers were ordered to keep out of politics, and prices of rice, sugar, milk and meat were slashed as much as 30%. Even a few bits and pieces of the billion-dollar Trujillo fortune, such as the family's coffee and cocoa monopolies, were returned to the people. Said one diplomat who a month ago had advocated OAS intervention: "I remain skeptical. But I'm very impressed with the gestures made. I now consider genuine reform a possibility...
Cape Canaveral's current firing schedule calls for launching a man into space on the target date of April 28. The seven Mercury astronauts, who until recently had visited the Cape only for launchings and special briefings, are now permanently billeted at Cocoa Beach's Holiday...