Word: gifts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Physical Ruin. The symbol of Biafran resistance is Lieut. Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a brooding hulk of a man who leads his people's military effort and speaks for their pain. With an Oxford education, a rare gift for rhetoric and a deep sense of the tragedy encompassing the war, he is endowed with the best that the white man has given Africa and beset by the worst of Africa's many ills. Ojukwu is also probably...
...When I first went to England as a boy," he recalls, "I was swamped by that sea of white faces. I didn't even recognize people who had been my teachers, once they were immersed among their own kind." On the debating team at Epsom, he developed a keen gift for words and also played rugby; and in 1952 set the school record for the discus throw (115 ft. 81 in.). He is remembered at Oxford as a good history student?though his grades were only average?and for a bright red MG sports car, with which he frequently burned...
...Guards. To dramatize the move, Mao sent a shipment of mangoes to the workers on Tsinghua University campus in Peking, where they were solemnly sniffed and touched, one commentary reverently reported, then preserved chemically as a "token of Chairman Mao's great attention to the working class." The gift was celebrated at campus rallies all over the country...
...wrapping and released a swarm of furious bees. Intended for a beekeeper in Columbus, Ga., the parcel had mysteriously acquired the doctor's address en route. In Los Angeles, a couple delightedly opened a two-pound box of Dutch chocolates, only to find a soupy goo inside. Their gift had languished for six months in a local postal warehouse before delivery...
...Alan Arkin, the submersible actor. Without a dominant personality that remains a constant in each performance, he is the victim as well as the beneficiary of his material. In his two most recent films, his vast comic abilities tick away in a bomb that never goes off, and his gift for pathos and poignancy soars so far above the surrounding melodrama that the film becomes virtually a one-man show...