Word: parise
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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All his life, Marxist-leaning Sékou Touré has dreamed of the day when he would finish the work of the man he claimed as his grandfather-the legendary Chief Samory who fought so fiercely to drive the French out of West Africa. As head of the powerful...
De Gaulle lost no time in showing Guinea the price of saying no. A special envoy rushed down from Paris, ticked off to Touré the dreaded list of things to come. All French public servants, technicians and army units would leave within three months. Financial aid would cease, and...
Last May, after his party was swept into power, Olympio proclaimed: "We are masters of our own house." Last month he flew up to Paris to make sure. Though the De Gaulle government has always been sympathetic to his demands, he was sternly told: "If it is independence you have...
Novelist James (Some Came Running) Jones settled down with Wife Gloria (a onetime stand-in for Marilyn Monroe) in a three-room Paris walk-up overlooking the Seine, worked mornings on his latest novel about Jazz Guitarist Bjango Reinhardt, kept afternoons free to match wits with electric pinball machines in...
Open-Eyed Dreams. Born in bilingual Strasbourg in 1887, Arp grew up at the watershed point between Germanic and French culture, has managed to make the best of both possible worlds ever since. As Hans Arp he attended the Weimar Art School, came to know Wassily Kandinsky and the proto...