Word: northern
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that mistook him for Winston Churchill. But the charge that he seeks to disturb Philippine-U.S. relations is perhaps the oddest ever directed at him. Few Americans have more affection and respect for the Filipino people. Kansas-born Jim Bell spent the formative years of his youth in northern Luzon, returned to the Philippines as an Army officer in World War II, has kept close ties with the islands ever since. One of the men whose friendship Bell most cherished was the Philippines' late, loved President Ramon Magsaysay-an incorruptible statesman who never found any difficulty in combining...
...independence is a relative thing. It will not be easy for Africa to be completely itself, for no other continent has been so swept by foreign influence. Islam stretches not only across its top, but deep into the south-as far as the lower reaches of the Belgian Congo. Northern Nigeria is as rigidly Moslem as Saudi Arabia, and political meetings in Guinea come to a halt at sundown, when everyone troops out, shucks shoes, and bows to Mecca. Throughout most of Africa the ubiquitous East Indian minority, tirelessly busy at trade and commerce, has also left its mark...
...Banda Comes Marching Home and cover his car with kisses, he has stirred up the whole territory by screaming for an end to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, has already picked out a name - Malawi - for an African federation that would include Nyasaland, Tanganyika, Uganda, and parts of Northern Rhodesia, Mozambique, and the Belgian Congo. "We must fill their prisons ," he tells his shrieking followers. "We must go singing hallelujah. That's the way to get freedom...
...Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and Moholy-Nagy, Albers came to the U.S. when Hitler closed the Bauhaus, taught at Black Mountain College and later headed Yale's Department of Design. At 70, Albers has the granitic and yet sensitive face of a northern Dante; though recently retired, he still finds opportunities to teach. "To distribute spiritual possessions," he may say to one shy talent, "is to multiply them." To another, more flamboyant, he may murmur in passing, "Calm down. What happens happens mostly without...
...professional) named Satyajit Ray. that promises to be one of the cinema's outstanding masterpieces. The trilogy is based on one of modern India's most popular novels, Pather Panchali, by Bibhuti Bannerji. Part One, Pather Panchali (TIME, Oct. 20). told a story of village life in northern India; of how a family tree was felled by the wind of the world; and of how the survivors, in anguish and confusion, broke with the medieval past and set out upon the weary and sorrowful journey to modern times. Aparajito ("The Story of Apu") describes their dreadful, beautiful encounter...