Word: sahara
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...terribly subject" to those New York winter chills, and he has already tried the Sahara and the Caribbean. Miami was a thought, "because it's so infinitely sordid and untempting." So now Author Truman Capote is settled in Palm Springs, Calif., working away on his first book since In Cold Blood. It's to be called Answered Prayers, said Truman, striking that languid reclining pose that he made famous on the jacket of Other Voices, Other Rooms 21 years ago. His new book will have lots of characters and "some of them will be recognizable." That...
...even bounty could not overcome the ethnic facts that have split Nigeria?as distinctly as the steady current of the K-shaped river system that forms its skeleton?into three separate regions. To the north, living on flat grassland that backs up to Sahara sands, dwell the Hausa and Fulani, haughty, devout Moslem peoples governed locally by feudal emirs. The Western Region is the home of the Yoruba, a tribe known for its profusion of gods (more than 400) and its joie de vivre. To the east, where they are now trapped, the ambitious and clever Ibo people thrived. Brought...
There are ways to love the heat. You can make it come to you strong. A fellow shut himself up in the bedroom of his apartment, closed the door and window and got under the covers and thought about being out in the Sahara. He got a very close to the heat, real heat, not like a sauna bath or a steam bath...
...from 17 nations at the Palais des Nations in Geneva have worked out virtually all the disarmament agreements. The U.S. and U.S.S.R. have treated the consultations with increasing respect, while France-originally the 18th member-has never taken its seat, choosing instead to flex its nuclear muscle in the Sahara. Red China has declared the committee anathema. HOT LINE, 1963. A minor deterrent, the installation of a direct telecircuit between the White House and the Kremlin, was worked out by Kennedy and Khrushchev...
...receptive the Economics Department is to courses on black Africa is unclear. Richard Caves, chairman of the Department, feels that regional study courses would not significantly contribute to a student's understanding of economics. "As you look at economics," he states, "you have to ask if sub-Sahara Africa is important...