Word: symbolization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that the rebels were indeed bad medicine for the Congo. At Albertville, he picked up at least three valuable exhibits: a series of photographs showing the rebels executing leading citizens, a 22-year-old Burundi prisoner who, Tshombe claims, was a "captain of the rebel general staff," and a symbol of revolutionary arrogance-a rubber stamp marked "République Révolutionnaire du Congo, Secteur Albertville." Evidence in hand, he took a much more important step toward winning African sympathies: as he left for Addis Ababa, Tshombe ordered the hated white mercenaries shipped home...
Welensky, who will himself run in Salisbury against a candidate hand picked by Smith, was once a symbol of white supremacy in Africa. But he opposes a violent break with Britain, and is far more inclined than Smith to allow the blacks at least a gradual share in ruling the country. Pleading for reconciliation, the "elephant" thus, ironically, offers for the moment the only slim hope of halting Southern Rhodesia's total commitment to white supremacy...
...Japan's $1 billion New Tokaido Line, the super-express Hikari averaged 80 m.p.h. and often went as high as 125 m.p.h. Crowds waved and cheered, highway traffic stopped to watch, and planes of newsmen circled overhead. Japan was greeting not only a new rail service but a symbol of the nation's postwar industrial growth and a new bond between its two largest cities...
...provide 40 miles of expressways and parking space). By night, its theater and nightclub districts glow in gaudy neon. Fun-loving citizens fill dozens of giant cabarets, one of which offers 800 hostesses to entertain customers, or ogle the sights from a 338-ft. observation tower, the symbol of the city's growth. Osaka's myriad restaurants are noted for their epicurean meals-and it is just as well. The new trains from Tokyo carry buffet stalls but no dining car. Reason: the railway claims that its trains go too fast to leave time for full-course dinners...
...grey lady bird?" And in London, a BBC executive snorted, "She's so beige!" But Yolande Gwin, society editor of the Atlanta Journal, put it more positively. "She's just plain old down-South Lady Bird," says she. "I think she's a much better symbol of the American woman and mother than Jacqueline Kennedy." Indeed, that special quality of homebred, plain-folks Americanness may be the one unmistakable brand that will mark Lady Bird Johnson's reign in the White House. At 51, she is cast more in the pleasant image of a neat, busy...