Word: townes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...road a few miles away, relief workers held out bits of food to a group of hungry children. They ran, not knowing what to do with it. "We are going to have to teach a generation of children how to eat again," said a Canadian nurse. In the border town of Ikot Ekpene, the emaciated bodies of a brother and sister lay side by side in a rough cradle. Their eyes had been pecked out by vultures still circling overhead, waiting to attack a line of wasted bodies in a ditch outside of town...
...Diego's KGB rocketed from lowest-ranked in town to the top on Drake's 63rd day as consultant. Small wonder that stations pay up to $100,000 a year for his services...
...pounded down. "I am haunted at night by the faces I see in those refugee camps," he said. Some of the hunger?"about 30%"?he admits is the Biafrans' own fault. "There is more we could do ourselves." One thing he has done is go to his home town and eat snails in a public demonstration. The Ibos scorn snails as food "only for the lowest." Ojukwu told TIME Correspondent James Wilde: "What you are seeing now is the end of a long, long journey. It began in the far north of Nigeria and moved steadily southwards...
Westerners have never quite understood geishas - those well-schooled, delicate wisps of femininity clad in elegant kimonos who coo sweetly over tired Japanese businessmen on the town for a night. Naturally, the men always leave their wives at home; unnaturally, they rarely get to go home with the girls. Baffling as that is, consider the newest addition to Japanese culture: the male geisha...
...Cross Gala started, the Doc one-upped His Highness, had the first dance with the hostess. After the ball, Barnard, who had earlier conferred in Rome about his autobiography, continued globe-trotting for medical meetings in Australia, Thailand and The Netherlands before returning home to Cape Town...