Word: guineas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hickory Hill is a Virginia home that houses one turtle, one frog, one guinea pig, one donkey, one crayfish, two lizards, two horses, two servants, three salamanders, three toads, three dogs, three birds, three roosters, four ducks, six ponies, eight children, 22 tropical fish, hundreds of meal worms, and Bobby and Ethel Kennedy, 35. It is a bad house to live next to if you are not kind to animals. When Ethel made up her mind that the man next door was starving his horse to death, she quickly brought the creature over to Hickory Hill, where the horse died...
Last week the sounds in the night came from real gunfire as angry mobs swept through the former French West Africa colony, located between Togo and Nigeria on the Gulf of Guinea. In Cotonou, the capital, and nearby Porto-Novo, the ragged crowds carried black-draped coffins and chanted war songs as they ransacked government offices, burned cars, hauled down the green, yellow and red national flag from public buildings, and demanded Maga's ouster. Bariba tribesmen from Maga's native northern region leaped into the fray in his defense and killed two demonstrators with bows and arrows...
...offered to serve as chairman of a truce meeting in Tunis including Hassan, Ben Bella and one of the unlikeliest political fraternities ever gathered outside the U.N. cocktail lounge-Egypt's Nasser, Tunisia's Habib Bourguiba, Libya's King Idriss, Mali's Modibo Keita, and Guinea's Sekou Toure...
...graduate students regard their teaching simply as an opportunity to gain experience, the undergraduates will be little more than guinea pigs. If a professor abandons his course to untrained section men, the student will suffer much more than he would if he fell asleep in Lowell Lecture Hall. As Professor Perkins observed, "Too much delegation of responsibility to inexperienced people could bring bad results...
...stagnated. This year France cut off its $1,100,000 annual dole, and Youlou raised taxes. Basic food prices doubled, and as bush people kept streaming into crowded Brazzaville, 19 out of every 20 Africans in the city were without work. Then Youlou made his worst mistake-he asked Guinea's demagogic, leftish President Sékou Touré for a visit. Instead of uttering niceties, the guest electrified the locals with denunciations of African leaders who turn wealthy bourgeois...