Word: julius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...slavish parroting of Nasser to an equally slavish parroting of Moscow. The Africans largely backed the Afro-Shirazi Party, led by a tough former merchant seaman named Abeid Karume, who is generally pro-Western, and inclined toward joining the East African Federation proposed by Tanganyika's Prime Minister Julius Nyerere...
...great Roman emperor Augustus, grandnephew of Julius Caesar, was frightened of thunder and fond of virgins, but his most publicized characteristic was opposition to ostentation. He lived, according to the historian Suetonius, in a modest house on Rome's Palatine Hill. But his successor, Tiberius, crowned the hill with an elaborate palace, and when the Roman Empire fell, barbarian kings. Popes and nobles made their homes on the Palatine...
...Julius Nyerere, First Minister of dependent Tanganyika. Much prized as another African "moderate," Nyerere gets Mrs. Dean's vote as the man most likely to lead any pan-Africa federation. Nyerere has done the best of any African statesman (except possibly the Nigerians) in reconciling the whites of his territory to independence, with a plea for "mutiracial democracy...
...University of North Carolina Law School for the first time gave its highest honor to a Negro: Julius LeVonne Chambers, 24, the son of an auto mechanic, who scored the school's top grades and was named editor in chief of the North Carolina Law Review. "I have had my statement prepared for a long while," said Dean Henry Brandis. "It is just three words-he earned it." Editor Chambers is one of 35 Negroes in the University of North Carolina, which has been accepting Negroes since 1951. Said he: "I don't look upon myself...
...works on the News of the Week in Review; she, a daughter of Major General Julius Ochs Adler, is a Sunday-edition picture editor...