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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Soviet Russia, as the all-powerful supplier of the satellites' raw materials, calls all the COMECON tunes. All deals are bilateral, for there is no free exchange of goods in Communism's uncommon market. The Russians have refused to supply raw materials to the Rumanians to build a new truck factory, because COMECON had already designated the Poles as truckmakers...
...born in The Netherlands, but at two, was taken to South Africa, where his father became a Dutch Reformed missionary. Verwoerd (pronounced Fair-voort) was educated at Cape Province's Stellenbosch University, intellectual fount of Afrikanerdom, became a professor of applied psychology, which should have given him uncommon insight into the minds of his nation's n million nonwhites...
...crop of young leaders rising to prominence in the peaceful revolution's wake. They are a mixed lot: clerks, teachers, village firebrands, and bush politicians with considerable native talent but little background or experience for the task of nation-building. Yet they walk onto the world stage with uncommon self-assurance. A Patrice Lumumba, onetime postal clerk and jailbird in the Congo, debates Congolese independence on even terms with the skilled ministers of Belgium in Brussels' Palais des Congrès. Julius Nyerere of Tanganyika enraptures sophisticated U.S. audiences on a coast-to-coast lecture tour. Kenya...
...Angeles, where common illnesses unaccountably take uncommon forms, the epidemic was at first widely described as "Q flu" because of the question as to its nature. Virologists soon proved that the virus was no mystery agent-merely the familiar Asian strain. But the ill-health picture in the area was complicated by other factors: the semiannual epidemic of "Spencer's disease," as local doctors like to call unexplained outbreaks of nausea, vomiting and diarrhea, and a second type of upper respiratory illness, milder than flu, presumably caused by a virus of a different family. One or another...