Word: foreign
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unabashed admirer of Mao Tsetung, President Julius Nyerere has decreed that Tanzania shall copy Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, with its rejection of all things foreign. As their first order of revolutionary business, Nyerere's "green guards" (so called for the color of their uniforms) set out to do away with miniskirts...
...lawyer would ever try to make a case for the Mafia? Luigi Barzini, for one. The Mafia "gives the Sicilians some sort of order in a country governed by foreign oppressors," said the Italian author-journalist in a discussion with students at Los Angeles' Occidental College. "The Mafia man uses the family and will not do degenerate things-he'll have nothing to do with heroin or prostitution." All of which leads Barzini to believe that Lucky Luciano, deported from the U.S. in 1946 as an undesirable alien who dabbled in dames, was never really a Mafia...
...world's richest men. Though Jackie obviously opted out of U.S. politics by her marriage to Onassis, the Kennedy name refused to leave the chapel when the wedding vows were made; her two children will continue to bear John Kennedy's name. Said a foreign ambassador in Athens: "I am convinced that she married him to secure the financing of John-John's presidential campaign...
...biennial Canton Trade Fair last week, The Red Lantern was put on for Chinese and foreign visitors and broadcast over Canton television. Also, a truncated version of the work (two soloists, eight arias) has now been made into a 35-minute film for showing inside and outside China. It is about as ex citing as a Communist indoctrination lecture-which is what it is. Even the workers and peasants who have been marshalled into showings have shown enthusiasm only when a picture of Mao himself has appeared. In response to Chinese critics who compared her new style to "insipid water...
Money in the Shoes? No Olympics would be complete without a scandal, and this time the rhubarb involved alleged under-the-table payments to U.S. and foreign athletes by rival German track-shoe manufacturers. Rumor piled on rumor: stories told of payoffs ranging as high as $6,500; officials were said to have canceled checks to prove that bribes were paid; several U.S. medal-winners were reported guilty. But rumors the stories remained after the U.S. Olympic Committee investigated and announced that it could find "nothing to substantiate" them...