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Halfway along the route, a waving welcomer in a roadside tree stuck his hand into a beehive, loosing a swarm of stingers that rapidly dispersed the crowd. Apiphobia spread-both literally and figuratively. That night, at the state banquet in Diamond Jubilee Hall, President Nyerere also indicated a reluctance to get stung. Coolly thanking Chou for the $45 million in Chinese aid pledges Tanzania has accepted (but not yet received), Nyerere declared: "We have to guard the sovereignty and integrity of our united republic against any who wish to take advantage of our current need in order to get control...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tanzania: Why We Guard Against Subversion | 6/11/1965 | See Source »

...swarm of mosquitoes may create a noise like thunder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Firecracker No. 2 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...from Viet Nam] with no real risks." And, since it will be at least five years before even the primitive 20-kiloton package exploded at Lop Nor can be delivered onto global targets, it seemed likely that the current Chinese thunder is being generated by nothing more than a swarm of anxious mosquitoes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Red China: Firecracker No. 2 | 5/21/1965 | See Source »

...land mass for a considerable time during each revolution. Two or three satellites would pro vide the U.S.S.R. with communications day and night. This may be all that the Russians are planning, but a powerful satellite sending strong, clear radio propaganda mixed with entertainment to the transistor radios that swarm in every country would be a powerful and potentially dangerous influence. The J.S. could set up the same sort of system, of course, and so could other countries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Electronics: The Room-Size World | 5/14/1965 | See Source »

Down 4-2 after the singles, Harvard swept all three doubles matches for the 5-4 margin, to the utter horror and disbelief of a swarm of Princeton rooters...

Author: By Boisfeuillet JONES Jr., | Title: Tennis Duos Take Crucial Matches To End Princeton's Winning Streak | 5/3/1965 | See Source »

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