Word: julius
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Touré, Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Ivory Coast's Félix Houphouet-Boigny, Nigeria's Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Kenya's Tom Mboya, Nyasaland's Kanyama Chiume, Southern Rhodesia's Joshua Nkomo, and most recently Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere...
...that point, his tournament total of 212 was only one better than that of a five-man pack on his heels: Ben Hogan, beginning to weary ("Every time I stand over the ball I feel like the hole is filled with my corpuscles"), Finsterwald, Venturi, Casper and Julius Boros...
...experience for the task of nation-building. Yet they walk onto the world stage with uncommon self-assurance. A Patrice Lumumba, onetime postal clerk and jailbird in the Congo, debates Congolese independence on even terms with the skilled ministers of Belgium in Brussels' Palais des Congrès. Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika enraptures sophisticated U.S. audiences on a coast-to-coast lecture tour. Kenya's Tom Mboya, 29, who used to be courted only by English left-wingers, now holds forth suavely as honor guest in the private dining rooms of London's largest banks and casually...
Tanganyika's Nationalist Julius Nyerere (see box). But on Legco's debating floor, few can match his organization of a case or his smooth command of English. And he is second only to Kenyatta as a Swahili orator, whipping African crowds into a frenzy of chants and shouts by the skillful rhythm of his speeches...
...Julius Nyerere, 38, a small, mustached onetime schoolteacher who was one of 26 children, will soon be in charge of Britain's Tanganyika trust territory (German before World War I), an East African land as large as France and Germany combined. By common consent, he is the ablest of the rising new crop of African leaders...