Word: names
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's end, Moi appeared to have the edge. As a non-Kikuyu, he could gain the support of many minority tribes; with the help of Njonjo and Kibaki he would attract many of the Kikuyu, particularly if he were to name an able Kikuyu as his Vice President and heir apparent. Since all political factions were committed to the appearance of a constitutional transition, it seemed improbable that the country's nonpolitical army would choose to intervene. "Calling in the military," observed a Western diplomat in Nairobi, "is the very last thing anybody wants...
Kenyatta could also be brutal in dealing with official misbehavior?even other people's corruption, if he thought it excessive. Two years ago, he summoned an assistant minister to his office. "Come sit by me, close," said Kenyatta. "Now what is your name...
...startled minister stated his name. Kenyatta rapped the minister across the ears with his heavy walking stick. "Now," said Kenyatta smiling, "what is your name again?" The minister repeated it. Again the old President struck him hard across the head. "And what do they call you in the street?" the President asked...
...evening. WSW has done more than make its natty 6-ft. 2-in. star the most popular figure on PBS since Sesame Street's Big Bird. It has also enabled him to parlay his blend of authority and irreverence into a one-man miniconglom-erate that has both a name (Rukeyser Enterprises, Inc.) and an income that may exceed $300,000 this year...
...black hole? The name is highly appropriate. Nothing?not even light?can escape from black holes, making them invisible. Even more astounding, these bizarre non-objects are in effect celestial vacuum cleaners that voraciously devour everything they meet. They are bottomless pits into which atomic particles, dust and giant suns all disappear without a trace. They are rips in the very fabric of space and time, places where long-cherished laws of nature simply do not apply. So unbelievable and paradoxical are these notions that they have led to what Wheeler calls "the greatest crisis ever faced by physics." Says...