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Word: continentals (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nominated by the President to be U.S. Ambassador to the brand-new Republic of Guinea, John Howard Morrow, 49, has never before held a Government job or set foot upon the continent of Africa. But last week he won unanimous Senate confirmation after speedy hearings before the same Foreign Relations...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: Good Experience | 6/29/1959 | See Source »

Nairobi police were waiting at the airport with a search warrant last week when Kenya's 28-year-old Tom Mboya got off the plane after a trip to the U.S. to receive an honorary degree at Howard University in Washington, D.C. For 2½ hours, as Mboya stood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Airport Search | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

In revolution-wary Kenya, as elsewhere in Africa, shivers run down the spines of white men when blacks get together to plan the continent's fate. For possessing what the Kenya government calls "seditious" literature, one of Mboya's chief aides in Nairobi, Elijah Omolo Agar, was recently...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: KENYA: Airport Search | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Pastor Smith views the resulting friction as threatening "the unity of Baptists on this continent more seriously than the Civil War." And he blames the cold uncharity of Northern Baptists for the situation in the first place. The 800,000-odd Southern Baptists who have moved north, he said, have...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Baptist Invasion | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

Although Jacobson's prose occasionally becomes sonorous with ringingly repeated phrases, at its best it is quietly excellent. The collection has its soft spots-notably a story pointedly titled The Stranger, which tells, in the manner of Camus at his most somber, of a rich man, cut off from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Color Is a Catalyst | 6/22/1959 | See Source »

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