Word: guineans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also president and chief executive of the St. Louis-based May Co., the third largest U.S. retail chain (64 stores). Reasoning that what appeals to him might also interest his customers, May arranges frequent art exhibits in his stores, even gathered a collection of African, New Guinean and Mediterranean primitive art to be sold there. The collection, priced from $3 to $6,000, went quickly. The sale proved once more that May, 51, has been right in doggedly upgrading what he calls May's "fashion image" since he took over eight years ago from his father...
Ganao charged that the operation's only purpose had been "to exterminate the black inhabitants," but Guinean Foreign Minister Louis Beavogui thought it had been carried out "to keep Africa within the orbit of the imperialist powers," and Kenya's Foreign Minister Joseph Murumbi called it a "sordid collusion, a calculated attempt to impose American-Belgian domination in the Congo." For Tanzanian Foreign Minister Oscar Kambona, it "will go down in history as the meanest, most unwarranted and provocative interference by the Western world in the affairs of the African continent...
...still the Congo. In and out of the U.N., African leftists and their Communist backers seem determined to turn Lumumba into a martyr-saint. Bulgaria and Albania joined last week to praise the "great Congolese patriot" who symbolized the "heart of Africa" but was "brutally assassinated." The Ethiopian and Guinean delegations compared him to Hammarskjöld, while the Mali representative went one better and compared him to Hammarskjöld and John Kennedy...
Then I Attack. "I play what I feel is needed," says Makim Touré, a Guinean disquaire at Paris' King Club who plays his twin turntables with all the grace and flamboyance of a 19th century concert pianist. When too many dancers take the floor in France, the compleat disquaire strikes them into their chairs by playing a French song-recurrent proof of the popular theory that Frenchmen hate their own music. To liven things up, disquaires turn to Ray Charles or a hully-gully by The Cookies...
...last week, the Ivory Coast's President Félix Houphouet-Boigny, whom Touré once called a "colonialist puppet." got red-carpet treatment, including an honor guard of paratroopers dressed in improbable raspberry-colored silk uniforms with floral patterns. Before Houphouet-Boigny left for home, a pretty Guinean girl serenaded him with a song in the Malinké dialect that, though it no doubt loses something in translation, told of her yearning...