Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since the end of World War II, the biggest news about Africa has been that Africa now makes its own news. In the past two years alone, two new nations have been born and twelve territories have become self-governing. Four more are scheduled to get independence by the end of 1960. Having logged more than 110,000 miles of travel crisscrossing Africa in these two years, TIME Correspondent Curtis Prendergast completed a tour of duty and cabled these impressions of a restless continent...
...euphoria" that might result from Khrushchev's visit. The London press attacked him in the same vein as Pravda does. "This man is dangerous," huffed Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express. "The policy of Dr. Adenauer would lead to war." To Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail, "the self-important old chancellor" was reminiscent of "a bullfrog who puffed himself up until he burst...
...Philadelphia Lady." By ordinary publishing rules, the Paris Herald should have perished with its creator, the late James Gordon Bennett Jr., madcap son of the New York Herald's founder. While Bennett lived, the newspaper was never much more than an expensive plaything. Self-exiled to Europe after a series of escapades, Bennett established the Paris Herald in 1887 mostly as a buffer against his own ennui. Save for a glorious hour at the outbreak of the first World War, when Bennett resolutely published under the German guns after even the government had fled, the Herald for three decades...
Rocky's feats dazzle no one more than Rocky. After hitting a home run, he roams the Indians' bench, bellowing with glee, hunting down teammates, who feign terror as they try to preserve their hands from his numbing clasp of self-congratulation. Every locker room in the league has echoed to his rallying cry: "Don't knock the Rock...
...Self-Contained Music Player. A small (22 in. long, 51 Ibs.), automatic background-music player that provides 37½ hours of music on 16⅔ r.p.m. records was put on sale by Seeburg Corp. It will be leased for as little as $30 a month...