Word: tribe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Item: a constituency near Kerman beat up the man Zahedi sent there to be elected; Zahedi suspended its balloting. Item: a former Iranian Ambassador to the U.S. announced himself as the pro-Mossadegh candidate from Kashan; Zahedi forced him to remain in Teheran. Item: the powerful Zolfaghari tribe in the northwest rigged the election of two pro-Mossadegh deputies; Zahedi rushed in four tanks and arrested the chiefs for using "undue force" on the voters. Moral: nobody in Iran save Fazlollah Zahedi is allowed to use undue force on voters...
...Museum's most intensive recent projects has been its large-scale expedition to Southwest Africa, a trip which produced the first complete cultural study of the African Bushman. For the first time, an anthropological group entered the wild Bushman country and actually lived with a native tribe. Led by Lawrence Marshall, a native of Cambridge though not a member of the University faculty, the expedition during its last season spent no less than 14 continuous months in contact with a 500-member Bushman tribe...
...Marshall Party made survey trips to the Bushman area for two years before embarking on a full-scale study. Then, in June, 1952, the expedition returned to Africa with plans to film an entire year in the life of the tribe. "The only previous contact with Bushmen had been around police posts," Marshall explains. "Most of the Bushmen we worked with had never even seen white people before." Even the elementary problem of communication proved a vexing one, for the expedition had extreme difficulty in obtaining native interpreters who were familiar with the Bushman tongue...
...foreign students in the U.S. from Nigeria, West Africa ... A statement made by Chancellor Adenauer runs thus: "We are not an African tribe, but a Central European nation proud of its country...
Germans, Western occupiers and Russian antagonists have all since learned to know how that lone Cologne holdout felt. To the occupiers, Adenauer has proved a rugged bargainer-tireless, insistent, all but immovable. "We are not an African tribe," he snapped one day, "but a Central European nation proud of its country." On another occasion: "It was the German army and not the German people that capitulated, and this the world had better remember." One day in 1949, when Adenauer visited U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy, the two men fell into a Gaston & Alphonse routine at the door. "After...