Word: nana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reservoir in Man. After Yaa got her shot, Paramount Chief Nana Kwame Ofori made a pronouncement that was officially translated: "This exercise will be given the maximum support." Dr. William H. Stewart, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, replied that it was a good thing so many countries were cooperating in an onslaught against two of the region's deadliest infectious diseases. Stewart pointed out that although Ghana has rung up a fine vaccination record recently, reported cases of smallpox have actually increased, because the disease has been imported by travelers visiting the country from other regions...
Many also achieved secondary but more lasting fame: Marie Duplessis was the prototype for the heroines of Dumas' La Dame aux camelias and La Traviata; Blanche d'Antigny was transformed by Zola into Nana and Apollonie Sabatier was the real-life la Muse et la Madone of Baudelaire's Les Flews du nuil. If these coquettes shared a single trait, it was by no means beauty but an indomitable will to succeed and the ability to overcome natural handicaps. A practical sort was Blanche d'Antigny. An inordinately heavy sleeper, she found early in her career...
Bright, fresh, satirical and full of surprises, She is the result of a month-long collaboration by three of the zaniest sculptors anywhere around: Switzerland's Jean Tinguely, a maker of mad machines; Niki de Saint-Phalle, his American-born friend, famed for her outsized Nana dolls; and Sweden's Per Olof Ultvedt. The three started out full of enthusiasm, which never slackened for a second. Says Tinguely": "It's a Noah's ark, Gulliver's Travels, the tower of Babel. It's like being in an airplane, a factory, a church. Everything...
HARRY BELAFONTE heard Nana Mouskouri, 28, singing in a supper club outside Athens and brought her to the U.S. to tour and record with him some Songs from Greece (RCA Victor), with folk lyrics but melodies mostly by Manos (Never on Sunday) Hadjidakis. Greek is a poetic language of love for Belafonte's mellifluous voice (In the Small Boat, Walking on the Moon). Mouskouri adds some dreamlike songs about freedom (The Town Crier, The Baby Snake...
...Newspaper Alliance is not affiliated with a newspaper. Founded in 1922, it specializes in big bylines. In 1936, it sent Ernest Hemingway to cover the Spanish Civil War; more recently, it hired Harry Truman to comment on politics. This month Dean Acheson will write a report on Viet Nam. NANA's 19 full-time staffers also turn out yards of women's news on food and fashions for the service's 140 U.S. clients...