Word: mastered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout West Africa-and elsewhere as well-the relations between white and black are easier than they ever were under the colonial regimes. "Today we can say things to Africans that they would never have accepted before, simply because it is no longer the master talking," says a French Africa veteran. Adds a black waiter in Abidjan: "There is no racial discrimination here, only social differences...
Most blacks now prefer to call their nation Zimbabwe, after the thousand-year-old ruins of a civilization of master artisans who apparently traded with places as far away as China. To Rhodes, however, it was Zambesia, realm of King Lobengula of the Matabeles, and coveted by the colossus as a link in his dream of an "allred route" of British colonies from Cape Town to Cairo. Rhodes's interest was not exclusively imperial: Explorer David Livingstone had returned from the area some 30 years before with tales of gold nuggets "as big as grains of wheat...
...Because of a prior commitment to ABC, Davis will appear as master of ceremonies on his Jan. 7 premiere, then is barred from his own show until...
...Ferry Porsche, 56, a cautious, brooding engineer. Ferry brought Porsche from a garage in Gmünd, Austria to a glass-and-concrete factory outside Stuttgart, where 2,400 workers now turn out 56 cars a day-every one handmade and every engine stamped with the initials of the master mechanic who assembled it. Porsche sales last year reached $40 million, a 350-fold increase over...
Despite this, the students who suffered losses in the Quincy fire will be re-imbursed by the University if they do not have personal coverage. John M. Bullitt Master of Quincy House is presently compiling a list of student losses...