Word: rhodesians
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...bitterest objections to federation came from the leaders of 6,000,000 Rhodesian and Nyasaland Negroes. The Africans fear to lose the benevolent protection of the British Colonial Office, suspecting that the whites in an independent "Rhodesia" might follow the example of South Africa and turn down the screws on the blacks. Negro spokesmen vainly petitioned Queen Elizabeth, whom they call the "Great White Mother," to veto the plan...
...Ivory Hunters has a saving feature, though, because it was shot in the heart of East Africa, and this is one movie where excellent color photography overrides some glaring inadequacies. After all, it isn't every day that you get a chance to see oaks, gazelles, jungle babies, and rhodesian ridgebacks in action...
While sweating out the weary months in a Rhodesian internment camp he was assigned to decorate the camp church's interior. He did the job in tempera, and claims that he completed a normal two years' work in four months, egged on by two Franciscan friars who kept him well fueled with cognac and whisky. (Pagliacci, a two-fisted drinker, says he does his best painting when slightly tiddly...
...help develop gold mines in Africa, they picked Arthur Storke, 54, a mining man with an African background. Storke had trotted the globe and risen to the presidency of Climax Molybdenum Corp. He was an operating director of South Africa's Roan Antelope Copper Mines, Ltd., and of Rhodesian Selection Trust, Ltd.; during World War II, as minerals adviser to Britain's Ministry of Supply, he expedited mining operations in South Africa...
...whites, 78,560) has not enough of the "right" (i.e., white, enterprising) people. In Britain's grimy, industrial Lancashire (pop. 5,039,455) an obscure district councilman named E. L. Leeming came up with a suggestion that 500,000 Lancastrians should be moved to the uncrowded Rhodesian spaces. Sir Godfrey embraced the idea, made in Plan...