Word: drives
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chinese Embassy staff. Massamba-Debat also re-established relations with Great Britain, which were broken over the Rhodesia crisis 21 years ago. He even hinted that a U.S. mission, pulled out in 1965 because of ill-treatment of American diplomats, might again be welcome. Last month he climaxed his drive by dissolving the leftist-dominated National Assembly and by having several leaders of Jeunesse and his own party arrested...
...stays in one piece. His hara-kiri habits sidelined him for two weeks last season when he banged up his shoulder diving for a sinking line drive. This year he ripped his hand open on the Crosley Field fence on the second day of the season. Next day, bandage and all, he collected two hits to launch a 22-game hitting streak...
President Jomo Kenyatta has lately sought to accelerate that trend with a vigorous drive for "Africanization." He has refused to issue work permits to non-Africans when blacks can perform the same job, ruled that certain rural businesses be operated by natives only. Kenyatta has also put pressure on big foreign-run companies to step up their management-training programs for black employees. Kenya's Labor Minister Eliud Ngala Mwendwa last month warned white and Asian businessmen that unless they train more blacks to fill management positions, they "will be seriously embarrassed and may even be forced...
...success, but also relieved. For a long time, she admits, they thought she was "a goner." By her own description, Janis in her Port Arthur days was a weirdo among fools. She painted, read poetry, and listened to Odetta and Leadbelly records. "Everybody else was going to drive-ins and drinking Cokes and talking about going across the tracks to go nigger knocking." At 18, she escaped to Los Angeles with her parents' dubious blessing and became a beatnik. Not a hippie. Janis explains the difference carefully. Hippies believe the world could be a better place. "Beatniks believe things...
...years, up to 1918, his country was dominated by a Western power, the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The Czechs' only hope was that a strong nation of similar Slavic culture, sensitive to Slav desires for self-determination, would help her drive for independence. The Russian Bolsheviks during the crucial years of World War I, became her champion...