Word: riche
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fading Away. As black Africa's most populous nation marked its sixth anniversary last week, it teetered on the brink of civil war. The cause of its problems is the age-old struggle between three dominant tribal groups: the ambitious Ibos of the oil-rich Eastern Region; the ebullient Yorubas of the cocoa-growing West; the feudal Hausas and Fulani of the semiarid "Holy North." Their differences are basic and, unfortunately, all too typical of the tribal divisions that plague other African nations. The Northerners are rigid Moslems, suspicious of outsiders, wary of progress, ruled by reactionary emirs whose...
...speeches, shaken tens of thousands of hands. He has promised his audiences almost everything: a balanced budget, control of inflation, more imports, more exports, better transport and communications, more electric power, better education, health and housing. His aim, he proclaims, is to promote "an authentic democracy, in which the rich are richer and the poor are less poor...
Opera is enjoyable, she says, "but I could have sung six concerts in the time it took to rehearse Julius Caesar." In a recital, the rich tonalities of her deep velvet voice come to full bloom, lending breadth and a somber ecstasy to a Mahler song, a wry twist to a Hugo Wolf lied...
Lord Thomson of Fleet, Toronto-born owner of 125 newspapers and 150 magazines from the Austin Daily Herald to the Bangkok Post, has long sought one crowning jewel: a major London daily. The Times of London, a paper of rich tradition but modest circulation (286,000), has long needed one sterling resource: money. Last week the British press lord got together with the Establishment's most authoritative daily (motto: "For Top People") in a deal that brings new prestige to 72-year-old Thomson and fresh power to the 181 -year-old Times...
...France dissenting, earlier this year voted to struggle ahead with some sort of monetary reform. Before Christmas, the Ten will meet with the 20 members of the executive board of the International Monetary Fund, which includes representatives of less developed countries, so that the poor as well as the rich can have a say in reform plans. Also there was agreement that some sort of stand-by reserve plan-no one knows quite what-should be drawn up and approved in 1967. France and its former colony Chad were the only ones to oppose the timetable. But finding himself isolated...