Word: zambezi
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...African saying. Last week, in the dead of Southern Rhodesia's cool, dry winter, the skies opened suddenly, and hail and rain swept across the rolling hills of light brown grass. That day citizens of Southern Rhodesia, going to the polls from the Limpopo to the Zambezi, voted Garfield Todd, their Prime Minister for five years until last February, into political oblivion. His United Rhodesia Party, upholding the zeal for racial "partnership" that earned him the name of "Kaffir lover" and cost him his office, failed to win a single seat...
...tiered bastions of some huge island fortress. Its rivers meander in wide swings and detours on their path to the sea, now rushing at breakneck speed through some narrow gorge, now cascading in a sheer drop of 350 ft. or more to the level below as does the Zambezi at Victoria Falls, now widening their banks to flow in lazy indolence over the flat plateau in depths too shallow for navigation...
AFRICAN DAM will be built at Ka-riba Gorge on the Zambezi River. Plans projected by the Central African Federation (TIME, Sept. 21, 1953) call for a $240 million dam that will have a 400-ft. wall backing up a lake 150 miles long. The first six generators to provide power for developing the mineral-rich area (uranium, copper, chrome, asbestos) will be on the line by 1961. Eventual power capacity...
...methods of suicide. But in those parts of the world that are not used to statistics, tabulating figures on who died of what has proved difficult. What good, for instance, is a death certificate written on the bark of a baobab tree along a branch of the upper Zambezi? So WHO decided that what it needed was something like the U.S. income-tax collector's 1040-A-a short form that nobody...
...since early times almost as great and wide as in our own day." He tells why experts now think that Bronze Age drummers lugged oaken sample cases through north European forests, and how the Egyptians of 4,000 years ago rowed their galleys 4,000 miles south to the Zambezi River to fetch myrrh, frankincense and gold. The eleventh of Hercules' twelve mythical labors-to fetch the golden apples of the Hesperides-suggests to him that the Greeks may have sailed into the Atlantic by 1400 B.C. The giant Atlas, who gave Hercules such a timely hand, may have...