Word: primed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cordon Rouge & Fat Mammies. At a banquet in State House, Prime Minister Nkrumah proposed a toast "To free Africa," raising a glass of Mumm's Cordon Rouge 1952 that had come straight from colonialist France. An orchestra struck up some Ghanaian calypso tunes, and at one point Nkrumah grabbed bemedaled President Tubman and whirled him about the dance floor. Next night the Prime Minister threw even a bigger party-a two-hour show for 50,000 people in the Accra stadium that featured tumblers, army drill teams and Accra's hip-swinging, fat "Mammy Traders...
...Prime Minister Johannes Strijdom, the bull-necked zealot who is the leader of South Africa's Nationalist Party, cried that it was "God's will" that the Nationalists get five more years of control over the destinies of the Union of South Africa's 14 million people. The devil was obviously working with the opposition United Party, for, said Strijdom, they wanted to give votes to nonwhites, and had devised a "devilish, satanic" plan to reorganize the South African Senate...
When ex-Missionary Garfield Todd was dumped two months ago as Prime Minister of Southern Rhodesia (TIME, Feb. 24), the move was based on a hardheaded political calculation. Todd's own party, the Southern Rhodesian division of the United Federal Party, decided that Todd's vigorous advocacy of racial "partnership" between blacks and whites in the Central Africa Federation (Northern and Southern Rhodesia and Nyasaland) had alienated white voters...
...Todd's successor the party picked Sir Edgar Whitehead, 53, the Federation's Minister in Washington, an Oxford-educated moderate whom no one had tarred with the label of "too liberal." Since Whitehead was not a Member of Parliament and could serve only four months as Prime Minister without being elected an M.P., the party shopped around for a safe seat, picked Hillside, a suburb in Southern Rhodesia's second city of Bulawayo...
...Southern Rhodesia. But White Supremacist Pain argued in the campaign that the United Federal Party, even with Todd gone, was pushing partnership "too far and too fast." Betting odds favored Whitehead 4 to 1, but when the votes of Hillside were tallied last week, the result was: Pain, 691; Prime Minister Whitehead, 604. A grim and grey-faced Whitehead promptly ordered dissolution of the Southern Rhodesia Parliament and new general elections in June. His defeat was widely taken as proof that South African-style ideology has at last established a beachhead north of the Limpopo...