Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Using one or three-act plays as a foundation, Aaron intends to discuss problems in preparation of scripts, casting, rehearsal techniques, and other problems in directing. He hopes to find five or six actors who will be "guinea pigs" for the prospective directors...
Defense Rests. In Port Moresby, New Guinea, Supreme Court officials noticed that Defendant Bia Umeme was missing, found him fast asleep on the floor of the prisoner's dock...
...American is not long in Africa." says TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast, "before he is taken aside and asked, 'Well, how long do you think this can last?' " After two years of reporting the ever-changing African story (including such major pieces as the cover story on Guinea's Sekou Toure), Prendergast finds that the question is in itself a kind of answer - a tacit admission by Africa's whites that they can resist and delay but cannot stop the move for increasing African rule. Africa has become a land of two timetables: the impatient black says...
...headlines. But in Ghana a kind of opposition at least still does exist. Wily President William V. S. Tubman of Liberia chomps on cigars, quotes the Bible and has no opposition at all. Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia is an absolute monarch. Cold-eyed, shrewd President Sekou Toure of Guinea, Africa's youngest nation, is Marxist-trained, favors Marxist-length speeches (very long), runs his country through a single Marxist-style party...
Cold-War Indifference. Guinea aside, the question of Communist influence does not-at least as yet-seriously arise. Though the present African leaders are almost all Western-educated and Western-minded, they are highly indifferent to the struggle between East and West. They seem to be much too possessive about their new position to ally themselves with other powers, even with one another...