Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Portuguese Guinea, which lies on the African bulge, has managed to fight off three invasion attempts by guerrilla bands. Lisbon accused Portuguese Guinea's neighbor, Senegal, of helping the rebels; Senegal retaliated by promptly breaking off diplomatic relations with Lisbon. Even the large and prosperous East African colony of Mozambique, which has so far been quiet, is stirring with nationalist fervor. Mozambique rebels in nearby Tanganyika, given asylum by Prime Minister Julius Nyerere, boast that they will soon turn the colony into "another Angola...
Even when the goods are available, they are usually so shoddily made as to be almost useless. Two enormous hangars in the Johannestal airport are crammed with $75 million worth of textile products that nobody at home or abroad will buy. (After Ghana and Guinea turned them down, the East Germans tried to fob them off on Communist Hungary-which indignantly returned the whole lot.) The state-owned shoe industry was recently forced to burn 25,000 pairs of sandals that were unmarketable...
Some drugs, widely prescribed by reputable physicians, are worthless. Others have hidden dangers about which doctors are not told enough. Some are inadequately tested in animals before being marketed, so that human patients serve, in effect, as guinea pigs to find out whether they are safe or not. A drug may be so costly, especially if it is a patented, monopoly item, that a patient's drug bill for a single illness can run to thousands of dollars. Almost any drug costs far more if it is prescribed by trade name instead of the generic chemical name...
...expandable wing has been tested only on the old brown-and-yellow four-jet 707 that Boeing uses as a guinea pig for new devices, but it has worked so well that Boeing engineers are making startling predictions for the 727. It will "come over the fence," say the engineers, at about 130 m.p.h., and will touch down at 115 m.p.h. This is about 20% slower than present jetliners and almost as slow as old-fashioned prop-driven planes. Instead of requiring two-mile runways, says Boeing, the 727, which can cruise for 1,700 miles at speeds...
...Trans-Lux) is a noodly British farce made by a crew of subversives who have obviously heard more than they care to hear about astronauts and rocket scientists. It seems that the National Atomic Research, Spaceship Testing and Information Bureau (NARSTI) wants to test its new moonship with a guinea pig before sending up a crew of expensively trained cosmonauts. He must be a human guinea pig, because a guinea-pig guinea pig would be an affront to the animal-doting British public. NARSTI's choice is a cheerful clod (Kenneth More) who has been fired from...