Word: richness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosperous half-century, tiny Belgium successfully ruled the vast, mineral-rich Congo with what seemed to be the most foolproof of colonial formulas: steady economic progress, combined with almost no political progress at all. But as the virus of nationalism spread across Africa and the newly autonomous republics of Charles de Gaulle's French Community sprang up throughout the continent, the Belgian Congo suddenly caught freedom fever. Early this year, after Leopoldville, capital of the Congo, exploded in the bloodiest race riots the colony had known in a decade (TIME, Jan. 19), Belgium hastily promised gradual independence "without fatal...
Angola prison is a favorite hunting ground of Folklorist Harry Oster. A scholarly teacher of English at Louisiana State University, Oster roams the streets and backlands of his adopted state to record its rich musical patois-French, Cajun, Negro French, Anglo-Saxon. In four years he has spaded up material that many a folklorist would give his magnetized recorder heads...
Died. Sir Matthew Smith, 79, shy, frail British artist who spent most of 30 years in Paris absorbing the work of the Fauvists, waited until he was 46 for his first one-man show, poured onto canvas powerful landscapes and sensuous nudes in rich, lush splotches of color; in London...
...Love You." The son of a rich Ceylonese public servant whose devotion to the British Crown won him a knighthood in 1907, Banda had long steered a perilous course through the tricky tides of Asian politics. He was raised a Christian and educated at Oxford, where his debating skill earned him the admiration of his English classmate, Anthony Eden. But once back home, Banda renounced Christianity in favor of Buddhism, threw off Western dress in favor of long white sarongs, and plunged into the movement that was to bring Ceylon independence within the Commonwealth...
Segregationists usually blame "Northern interference or the N.A.A.C.P.," but the radio-television industry carries far more responsibility. "Television spreads more rapidly among the poor than among the rich. And the classes with TV sets are getting TV's message: you should have a new car; you should be a good American and watch the Republican Convention; you should use a certain hair tonic. So the Negro in the deep South says, 'O.K., I've bought the hair tonic. Now where do I go to vote...