Word: ethiopia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wally's talent is not so much for diplomacy as organization. He demands discipline: a brash trailer owner who disputed him got left behind in Ethiopia. He also delegates the work. The head of the crucial Gas and Fuel Committee is a vigorous former banker from Texas named George Ezell, 62. Louis Mousely, who once grew apples in upstate New York, is the wagon boss who herds the trailers into frontier circle formation at night, and carries a special piece of string about as a measure to see that each is the proper distance from the other. Retired Contractor...
...father. Thereupon the seven chamberlains urged postponement of Akihito's trip until well after President Eisenhower's visit to Japan in June, "to prevent members of the imperial family being used as a political instrument." Besides, they said, the Crown Prince should first repay visits from Ethiopia's Haile Selassie and Iran's Shah. Last week, blandly ignoring earlier pledges of a U.S. trip in May, the inflexible chamberlains declared that "the Imperial Household Board will work out its own plans for an autumn overseas tour" by Akihito, "independent of any political considerations...
...Colonial Secretary, Iain Macleod, 46, was facing up to his first big challenge, as he sought to guide the African colony of Kenya along the road to full democratic nationhood. The challenge is urgent, since Kenya will soon be entirely surrounded by African-controlled states. Sudan and Ethiopia to the north are already independent; Somalia to the east, Tanganyika to the south, and Uganda in the west come under African control this year or next...
...year 1960 may be the most important period in Africa's history," said Baptist Graham just before he took off last week on a preaching tour that will take him to 16 cities and nine countries-Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Southern Rhodesia, Northern Rhodesia, Tanganyika, Kenya, Ruanda Urundi, Ethiopia (South Africa is not included because Billy Graham insists on unsegregated meetings, which are illegal in the land of apartheid). Continued Billy: "We believe God directed the launching of this undertaking at the opening of Africa's year of destiny. We hope to be able to make some contribution...
...years to come Africans will still get their best higher education overseas-if they can win scholarships and raise travel and pocket money. But alternatives are developing. Last year Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie set up a 200-scholarship program for all Africans at the University College of Addis Ababa (enrollment...