Word: revs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...When you meet an elephant on the road," says the helpful Uganda government in its hints to travelers, "do not blow your horn. This may annoy him." Merely stop some distance away and rev your engine, and he will step aside. If, on the other hand, the traveler has no engine to rev, there should be no disputing the right of way-the visitor would do well to rev his feet and get out in a hurry...
Father of another senior, the Very Rev. Lawrence Rose, Dean of the General Theological Seminary of New York, will be Commencement Chaplain...
...example of Apartheid's stranglehold on South Africa, the Rev. Reeves chose education. In 1954, when six-sevenths of all South African education was in the hands of the Church, the government announced that all schools were to be either nationalized or run without financial...
...Rev. Reeves found a third possibility, closing the doors of his schools to prevent the government from using them. The Africans cried that depriving them of education was like depriving them of bread. The Rev. Reeves replied that his justification "depends on whether the loaf is poisoned...
Today the South African government boasts an increase of 50 per cent in the enrollment of the primary schools, but the Rev. Reeves claimed this was accomplished largely by "degrading the education of black children and cutting the school week in half". "If you cut the school week short enough", he declared, "there is almost no limit to the number of children you can 'educate...