Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next to Houphouet-Boigny, the most powerful man in the R.D.A. is a 36-year-old labor leader named Sékou Touré, now the vice premier of Guinea. A onetime Marxist and incorrigible troublemaker for France, he is a ruthless man who used to burn the houses of his enemies, and looks upon the loi-cadre as only one step toward autonomy. But the French regard him benignly as one of the ablest administrators in the whole territory. "I am no socialist," says he, "and neither are my colleagues. We have studied the principles of socialism, Communism...
Peanuts & Problems. Unfortunately, only Houphouet-Boigny's Ivory Coast and Touré's Guinea have inspired much confidence so far. Though Senegal was the first territory to be colonized, its economy still depends mostly on peanuts-a crop that gradually exhausts the soil. Mauritania, which has only four towns of 3,000 people or more, is a vast desert whose rich deposits of iron and copper ore are still to be exploited. The Upper Volta has as many livestock as people, and its workers must migrate from the territory each year to find jobs. Niger, the largest territory...
...Child engagements. In one French Guinea tribe, if expectant parents are betting on a girl, the engagement takes place before the bride-to-be is even born. The baby girl gets her engagement ring in her first bath. Disturbed enough by prepuberty engagements, the delegates were shocked at the Guinea custom. "Alas, we cannot change," said one, "until the African man realizes that a woman is not just the daughter of her father, to be disposed of as he likes, or the property of her husband, to be treated as he pleases...
Most doctors go to A.M.A. conventions to see and not to be seen, but in San Francisco last week, more than a thousand M.D. conventioneers became subjects for their colleagues (total attendance: 13,218 physicians, plus twice that many family members, nurses, technicians). The M.D. guinea pigs submitted to being bled for a variety of tests, underwent blood pressure readings, electrocardiograms, stethoscoping and chest X rays. The object: to raise the standard of medical care for physicians themselves...
...your otherwise fine June 2 article on Dr. Gimenez Guinea, you said that Manolete died from a ruptured femoral artery. This is not so. My source? Dr. Gimenez Guinea. I've been under his care here for the last 13 days after suffering an 8-in.-deep horn wound given me by a two-year-old animal while practicing. Like Manolete's wound, the horn missed my femoral by a centimeter but stopped short of the cluster of smaller veins and arteries in the groin, which is what did Manolete...