Word: semis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Incredible String Band is Robin Williamson and Mike Heron. They can play almost anything on almost almost anything--ranging from oriental to semi-calypso to blues, rock, classical guitar things and children's songs, blending all into their unclassifiable style using guitar, bowed gimbri, sitar, mandolin, flute, harmonica and an exotic percussion arsenal...
However, their position as a political-economic buffer group between the British and the Africans engendered animosity from both sides. Africans especially resented Asians for holding the semi-skilled jobs denied them and for growing wealthy by selling to Africans. Moreover, the Africans had little opportunity to meet and understand the Asians, who cloistered in tight communities and shunned intermarriage. Asian contacts with Africans were either on a master-servant or trader-buyer relationship...
...Asians left Kenya during the first years of Uhuru, since Africanization of jobs took place slowly. Only last autumn did political pressure to place Africans in the main fields of Asian activity lead to new restrictions. Determined to break the Asian hold on trade and semi-skilled jobs, the African-dominated Government required all non-citizens to have working permits and all traders and merchants to have licenses. Discrimination figured in many cases--permits were granted slowly, often for very short periods, and the awarding of licenses openly favored Africans, even if the Asians were citizens. The Government's solution...
After sweeping past the Detroit Pistons in the Eastern semi-finals, the Celtics crushed the defending champion 76ers, 127-118, last Friday night in the opening game of the best-of-seven series...
...Jeannette Ramos, 35. At the same time, he said he would retire after his current term. The angry reaction virtually drove Sánchez underground for a time. During last summer's plebiscite campaign over Puerto Rico's legal status, Muñoz, now 70 and in semi-retirement as a senator, came back into the arena to marshal the P.D.P.'s successful fight to keep Puerto Rico a commonwealth...