Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mainland Spanish territory in Africa won its independence and sidled into the world's consciousness as the 126th member of the United Nations. The omens could not have been brighter. Spanish U.N. Ambassador Don Jaime de Pinies applauded "the splendid example of peaceful independence" set by tiny Equatorial Guinea, and in return the nation's U.N. ambassador, Saturnine Ibongo lyanga, said his countrymen hoped to be "an Iberian bridge to Africa." All differences seemed ironed out between the 60,000 Fangs of underdeveloped Rio Muni, the mainland wing, and the 8,000 Bubis of the prosperous island...
Ndongo tried to mount a golpe (coup) against Macias, who, at the time, was out of town delivering a series of tirades against Spanish "exploiters." Well aware that without Spanish financial aid (which runs to nearly $8,000,000 a year), Equatorial Guinea would find itself in serious difficulty, Ndongo moved into the President's office, after doing his best to assure himself of military support. The assurances proved illusory. As Macias now tells it, Ndongo became so frightened when Macias returned that he leaped from the office's window and broke a leg. Ibongo, also...
...Tome Island drowses in tropic torpor. Toward evening, however, the diminutive Portuguese colony off West Africa's underbelly in the Gulf of Guinea suddenly rouses. Along its single airport's runway can be seen a motley squadron of DC-6s, a C-46, a Super Constellation, and lately bigger but nonetheless obsolete C-97 stratofreighters, wheezing into readiness. Trucks dash up, hauling crates of food and medicines. Eventually, crews as varied as their airplanes - Swedes, Finns, Americans, a stolid Yorkshireman, a not so dour Scot - screech up in cars and climb aboard. One by one, at 20-minute...
...Skiddy von Stade Jr. '38, who will be Master of Mather House when it opens next Fall, says he will oppose any use of Mather as a "guinea pig" for coeducation...
Many of her guinea pigs might challenge Sturtevant's personal ability to create change, but few have failed to sense the anxiety of which she speaks. It is a fundamental unrest that arises because a basic artistic philosophy-originally formulated by the pop artists-now produces increasingly sterile new work. None of the mutants of the virile genus popus-such as op or earthworks or photographic realism-seem sufficiently robust to beget new species in their turn...