Word: tubman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mythical War. Liberia's President Tubman completely furnished his executive mansion at Macy's. Tonga's Amazonian Queen Salote outfitted herself for Queen Elizabeth's coronation by purchasing six Macy's gowns (size: 24). Some of the most avid customers are the visiting materialists from Russia and its satellites, who enjoy picking at Macy's the fruits of capitalist enterprise. For those who cannot make the trip to Herald Square, Macy's has a personal shopping service. Among millions of routine assignments, it has dispatched six bottles of Coppertone to a sunburned Englishman...
...summit conference used to mean a meeting of the world's top leaders.* Nowadays, just about any get-together between heads of government is billed a summit, whether it joins Tito and Nas ser or Liberia's Tubman and the Upper Volta's Yameogo. Last week still an other less than towering summit brought together in Tokyo Indonesia's President Sukarno, Malaysia's Premier Tunku Abdul Rahman and Philippine President Diosdado Macapagal. Agenda: "the Malaysian problem," which happens to be entirely of Sukarno's making...
...Regarding your article on Liberia [Jan. 17], all that is in it is true, but damn you for all the mockery it carries. Tubman is a good man, and the people of Liberia love him. If he remains in the mansion forever it is because the people want...
Genial Shad Tubman rules Liberia through his True Whig Party and by the judicious use of jobs and "dash"-the local word for payoffs for favors-to keep the important 20,000 Americo-Liberians happy. He has also originated a unification policy intended to pass out political and economic plums to the hinterland tribes and was the first Liberian President to give them representation in the legislature. Half of the U.S. development grants of $8,600,000 a year is earmarked for teacher training and the construction of schools. Tubman quite frankly caters to the Liberian love of status...
...luxury Ducor Intercontinental Hotel, and paramount chiefs representing Liberia's 20-odd tribes brought with them retinues of up to 30 people, including wives, children, relatives, and entertainers such as dancers and drummers. In the streets, delirious crowds held arches of flowers and hurled bushels of confetti as Tubman whirled proudly through the streets in his Cadillac convertible during the inauguration festivities. Applause greeted every pronouncement in his inaugural address until he came to the final ringing sentence: "I enter upon the execution of the sacred task to which I have been called for the fifth and, I earnestly...