Word: view
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Three months ago the first measure of democracy was doled out to the native African tribesmen of Britain's Kenya, but from the Africans' point of view it was a pitiful inch for a desired mile. Under a constitution devised during the height of the Mau Mau rebellion, some 130,000 carefully screened voters representing Kenya's more than 5,500,000 Africans were allowed to vote for eight black members of the national Legislative Council...
...striking broadcast, not so much for the words that made headlines, but because it gave the U.S. its only firsthand, sustained view of what manner of man runs the Communist Party of the U.S.S.R. The view bore little resemblance to the popular image of the off-duty, semicomic, garrulous Khrushchev tippling his way through diplomatic receptions. This was Khrushchev during office hours, not only sober but sobering: a tough, shrewd, vigorous man with the air of confident command. In sharp contrast to China's Chou Enlai, who cautiously read his answers to selected written questions...
HELICOPTER TOURS of the French château country will be started this summer by Belgium's Sabena World Airlines. It will offer nine-hour trip for close view of twelve Loire Valley châteaux (price: $72), plus 80-minute trip over six castles (price...
...plain that Father Neptune was a first-rate curator. Among others, three bronzes, of a god a philosopher and a youth (opposite), came up looking little the worse for their long immersion, were sent back to the place of their origin, and are now on view at the National Museum in Athens...
...Price of Leadership. In both Britain and France, at the height of the dispute over U.S. embargoes on trade with Communist China, the press was quick to view the violence as evidence not only that Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek will bite the hand that feeds him, but has very few teeth left. Said the neutralist newspaper Le Monde: "The Nationalists have lost almost all hope of winning back China. This sense of frustration naturally nourishes the feeling of latent bitterness against the Americans." If the riots "lead to fresh thinking about Formosa," said the Manchester Guardian, "they will have done...