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Word: homeland (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bookkeeper & Glassblower. This year, 20 contestants were in Jerusalem for the finals, each a winner of competitions in his homeland. There was a chicken farmer from New Zealand, a paratroop major from the Belgian army, an Italian glassblower, a Seventh-day Adventist bookkeeper from Brazil, a Swiss electrician. From the U.S. came Polish-born Samuel Joshua Singer, 58, a onetime Yeshiva student and a former assistant attorney general of New York State. France sent a professional Scriptural scholar, Roman Catholic Abbe Raymond Seguineau, 42, who is preparing a Bible concordance; Finland's champion was blonde, blue-eyed Irja Immonen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Bible: Jerusalem Olympics | 10/2/1964 | See Source »

...major stop on the President's tour was the vast $34.2 million Limpopo settlement scheme in southern Mozambique, into which Portugal hopes to lure 1,000 immigrant families from the homeland, as well as 500 more from Mozambique itself. Each new farmer will receive up to 25 acres of irrigated land, a new house, furniture and tools, as well as two bullocks, a milk cow, two pigs, five chickens and a rooster. The 14-village project serves two purposes: it takes the pressure off the government at home, where poverty and discontent are mounting, and it strengthens Mozambique...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Mozambique: Public Enemy No. 3 | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...FAKE DADAIST ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG CROWNED IN TITIAN'S HOMELAND. Le Figaro held its nose at THE GREAT POP ART MANEUVER; AN ATMOSPHERE OF THE APOCALYPSE...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Market: Goodbye Paris, Hello New York | 7/17/1964 | See Source »

...might think that Gaston Defferre, French Socialist candidate for President and the only man so far to challenge Charles de Gaulle in the next election, would be a prime TV news subject in his homeland. But when he be gan his campaign with a series of rallies in Bordeaux last month, not a glimpse of his face appeared on French video screens. Last week when a television interview with Defferre, shot by a West German network, was made available to France's state broadcasting monopoly, Radiodiffusion, Television Franchise, the film wound up on the cutting-room floor. R.T.F...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: Unequal Time | 3/13/1964 | See Source »

...weak is the Congolese control of its borders that last week 3,000 spear-wielding Watutsi tribesmen exiled in the Congo's eastern reaches mounted an attack on their neighboring homeland, Rwanda, out of revenge for the recent genocidal slaughter there of thousands of Watutsi by the ruling Bahutu tribe. They were driven back by the Belgian-officered Rwanda army at a cost of 300 Watutsi dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: The Jeunesse | 2/14/1964 | See Source »

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