Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...adjoining colony of French Guinea, people feel differently. In the capital city of Conakry, a once sleepy banana port that is now studded with French-built skyscrapers, Premier Sekou Touré thundered a loud "No!" Cried Sekou Touré: "We will vote no to a community which is just the French Union rebaptized, that is to say, old merchandise with a new ticket. Beginning Sept. 29, we will be an independent country. We will take entire and total responsibility for our affairs...
...emergency, just cable your name and address for a fresh consignment"). The venture's most useful aim is one never before achieved-nobody really knows the reliability of any of the more widely used contraceptives. "This is going to be an historical trial," Wright wrote happily to his guinea pigs last week. "It is probably too much to say that you will enjoy participating in it, but we hope it will not be too much for you both and that you manage to stay the course...
...days De Gaulle was subjected to the curious experience of hearing irate Africans loudly demand something he had already offered them. At Conakry, in French Guinea, firebrand Premier Sékou Touré, orating to a crowd before an obviously annoyed De Gaulle, shouted that "We prefer poverty in independence to richness in slavery." (But Touré also promised that Guinea would vote yes to the constitution.) And at Dakar, restive capital of Senegal, De Gaulle's motorcade into town was beset by jeering demonstrators calling for "immediate independence." For the first time during his African tour, the stony...
...took a whole crew of doctors, pharmacists and experts from the Home Office Forensic Science Laboratory, using 1,220 mice, 150 rats and 24 guinea pigs, to find out. After four puzzling days, a sharp-eyed pathologist found four injection marks in Mrs. Barlow's buttocks, two on each side. From each site he removed part of the underlying tissue for analysis, suspecting insulin. Barlow's boast had been half right: insulin is almost impossible to detect. But by extraordinarily ingenious methods described in the British Medical Journal, the drug sleuths found a way to prove that there...
...Guinea, the home of the headwaters of the Senegal and Niger Rivers, has plunged into the most ambitious industrial program in French West Africa. Touré has abolished the corruption-ridden French office of cantonal chiefs, is now training a cadre of 106 administrative experts to run the land. French, Swiss, Canadian and U.S. money is backing a $200 million bauxite development program. "In five years," says one French official, "Guinea will be unrecognizable...