Word: nyasaland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Corpsmen have piled up hundreds of these tiny triumphs-ranging from teaching the twist in Nyasaland to growing lettuce in Brazil to building badminton courts in Borneo. They have been treed by African buffaloes, serenaded by Filipino gigolos, adopted as sons by Southeast Asian aborigines, frightened by playful natives tossing pythons in their laps...
...CANNON Peace Corps Volunteer Mlanje, Nyasaland...
What infuriated Welensky was that Britain has already agreed to give independence to the two black-controlled states of Northern Rhodesia and Nyasaland, while reserving decision on Southern Rhodesia (where 250,000 whites currently rule 4,000,000 blacks) until an African conference is held this summer. In reply, Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Winston Field repeated his refusal to attend any such conference until he receives in writing from Britain's Deputy Prime Minister R. A. Butler a promise that Southern Rhodesia gets its independence concurrently with either of the other two states...
...March 1959. in the British Central Africa protectorate of Nyasaland, harmless-looking Elard Chipandale, 31, tied a handful of magic twigs about his waist, donned a coat of tree bark, and turned himself into a crocodile. He lay in wait by the bank of the Mwanza River for an eight-year-old girl named Mponda
Last week, in Nyasaland's commercial center of Blantyre, both men were on trial for murder. Elard's ready admission of the killing did not make things any easier for Chief Justice Sir Edgar Unsworth. For Elard insisted that he was not guilty because he was a crocodile at the time. Sir Edgar called in the government's psychiatrist to test Elard's sanity. He was judged not insane, but the psychiatrist added, "We must admit we are dealing with a mentality completely foreign to us." Sir Edgar turned to the court assessors-three tribal elders...