Word: houphouet
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Orchids to TIME and to Photographer Halsman for including Madame Houphouet-Boigny among a gallery of reigning beauties. For the nation's colored races, it offers an example of "how to succeed in life without being Caucasian...
...schools that Christianity has an influence in West Africa that far exceeds its numerical strength. Although about one-half of West Africans are pagans and only one in a dozen is a baptized Christian, nearly every West African leader, from Ghana's flamboyant Kwame Nkrumah to Felix Houphouet-Boigny of the Ivory Coast, studied at mission schools. Protestant and Catholic schools of West Africa today have more than 200,000 students-including most sons and daughters of the new nations' urban elite...
...read the article about the visit to the U.S. of Ivory Coast's President Felix Houphouet-Boigny [May 25] and his exclamation as he got off the boat: "I am filled with emotion to arrive in this most solid democracy in the world." If this sympathetic President thinks about solidity of democracy in terms of nuclear punch, I agree with him; if he is thinking, however, of the solidity of democratic institutions, I would like to invite him and Mme. Houphouet-Boigny to Switzerland...
FERNAND BERNOULLI Swiss Ambassador to Mexico Mexico City > Let Reader Bernoulli check his address book. President and Mine. Houphouet-Boigny own a villa in Gstaad, Switzerland, and their daughter attends school there...
UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA Felix Houphouet-Boigny, President and Foreign Minister of the Republic of Ivory Coast LL.D...