Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...load on their rounds. According to the rules, mail must be delivered only through the recipient's mailbox or handed to him personally; normally, if there is no mailbox, the postmen simply poke letters through a window or, if the recipient is out, hand them to a neighbor. Now all mail that could not be left in a mailbox or delivered personally went straight back...
...agreed to the bill (minimum: $2,000 per couple), the guest's wish is Weston's command. "Weekend visits to other hotels, sightseeing by private plane, deep-sea fishing, champagne for breakfast-anything he wants is on the house." promises Weston, adding expectantly, "and his neighbor may be Prime Minister Macmillan...
...Ghanaian education. Under the provisions of the new bill (which is certain to pass the rubber-stamp Parliament), government-appointed school board governors will exercise censorship over textbooks and teaching methods so that they hew closely to the government's chosen line. Even Nkrumah's leftist neighbor, Guinea's Sekou Touré, was put off by this action. Refusing to come to Accra for the installation of Nkrumah, Touré said to a visitor: "Who ever heard of a politician and head of state taking over the direction of all a country's higher education...
...water buffaloes that are the Philippine beasts of burden, stole out at night to catch frogs in the rice fields for food, and did well enough in the village school to be named class valedictorian. He would have been too ashamed of his clothes to appear, if a generous neighbor had not supplied him with a white shirt and a pair of canvas shoes...
...China's own backyard. Last week nine parties-North Viet Nam, North Korea, Burma, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaya, Australia, New Zealand and Belgium -joined Peking in sending congratulatory telegrams to Tirana for the outcast Albanian Communist Party's 20th anniversary.* The parties in Red China's key neighbor states-Japan and India...