Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Urban Bedouin. What is at stake is a sparsely populated nation more than twice the size of Texas and even more desolate in appearance. The Turks ruled Libya from the mid-16th century until 1912, when Italy gained the upper hand. The British administered the country from the end of World War II until independence in 1951. Once one of the poorest of Arab lands, Libya has become one of the wealthiest since vast reserves of oil were discovered a decade ago. In 1960, Libya's exports consisted of such commodities as esparto grass, olive oil, sponges and camels...
...southern Sudan, the long-awaited rains have left the countryside carpeted in a lush green. The valley of the rain-swollen Upper Nile is alive with gazelles, dik-dik and brightly plumaged birds, and the elephant grass is five feet high. Over the past several years, that luxuriant growth often concealed guerrilla fighters of the dread Any a Nya (Scorpion) independence movement, but now there are signs that one of the most long-lived conflicts in Africa has begun to ebb. Last week, TIME Correspondent William Smith visited the Sudan and filed a report on a hopeful lull...
...Chicago convention, the U.S. was plunged into debate over TV coverage of the riots. Did the cameramen and commentators deliberately distort their reportage in favor of the protesters and against the police? In a postmortem, NBC News Chief Reuven Frank wrote that not just "the intellectuals and upper middle brows" had turned against TV, "but the basic American audience, the most middle-class majority in history...
...acerbic commentary on the Edwardian era; in London. Dame Ivy cared little for plot and less for scene setting; her regiment-sized casts of disembodied characters came and went like ghosts in a dank country estate. Yet she was a master of dialogue, uncovering the tragicomic foibles of upper-class England in such books as The Mighty and Their Fall and Bullivant and the Lambs...
...imagination. It is in the tropics, inimical to man, where decisive and meaningful deterioration occurs or is resisted. Greene rather blames Ronald Knox, famous convert and translator of the Bible, for having spent a cloistered life rather than dying like his obscure Anglican grandfather in "the dirty upper room of a Goanese grog shop." Fidel Castro, as jungle hero, he finds sympathetic: "This man, so Pauline in his labours and in his escapes from suffering and death...