Word: droves
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impending release of hundreds of Mau Mau murderers, Harold Macmillan's new Colonial Secretary, bright, ambitious Iain Macleod, intends a bolder, more liberal approach to Britain's colonial problems in Africa. As one indication of the new trend in British colonial policy, Prime Minister Macmillan himself drove out to London Airport last week to welcome one of the most outspoken of new African leaders, President Sékou Touré of newly independent Guinea, on his way home after a visit to the U.S. That night Macmillan gave Touré a white-tie state banquet...
...Long Silence. "Africa is calling," Donald wrote cheerily. The tour headed south to the Riviera, turned east into Italy, drove across Yugoslavia, Greece, Turkey and Lebanon, and finally put their cars aboard a boat bound for Port Said. On July 24, Donald sent his sister a letter from Isna, Egypt, saying that he and his companions were ready to cross the Nubian Desert, and adding confidently "Write me in Johannesburg." In Aswan next day, John Armstrong wrote his mother a postcard that said he would soon be in the Sudanese border town of Wadi Haifa. The four bought food...
John Stotler and Eugene Lipkowitz drove a Corvette to victory in the Fall Rally of the Babson Institute Sports Car Club. The contest was run over more than 90 miles of backwoods roads where the majority of the entries got lost...
...Town. In Nagoya, Japan, Fusao Ochiai missed the last streetcar, swiped a trolley and drove it to his home, soon got another free ride-to jail...
...mayors were still flying when their aircraft stopped at the ramp at Tyndall. Mayor Healy, in fact, swayed so much as he egg-walked down the steps that an officer stood by to catch him. When an Air Force car drove Healy and Fitzpatrick to their billet at a motel 30 miles away, the two mayors, says Motel Owner Fred Faulkner, "had to be helped to their room." And when an officer arrived later to give them some information about Project William Tell, Healy made three requests: he did not want to be bothered with any of "this William Tell...