Word: zambia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Project Tanganyika is looking for a new name. For the first time in the Project's five-year history, the Phillips Brooks House teaching program plans to place some of its teachers outside of East Africa. They will go to the newly-independent country of Zambia...
Positive Neutrality. Meanwhile, the Assembly conducted business by acclamation in order to avoid voting. It admitted three new nations-Malta, Malawi and Zambia-and elected its first black African president. Ghana's Ambassador Alex Quaison-Sackey, 40, festively garbed in orange and yellow tribal robes, took the chair alongside U Thant and Indian Under Secretary C. V. Narasimhan, symbolizing the U.N.'s ever-increasing Afro-Asian cast...
...small private organization, Britain's Voluntary Service Overseas went into high gear after the Peace Corps came along, now gets matching funds from the government and counts 700 workers in the field, mostly in Commonwealth countries and European refugee camps. Three developing countries-El Salvador, Kenya and Zambia-have started domestic Peace Corps to work within their own borders. Nine other countries are planning overseas or domestic Peace Corps-style organizations: Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Italy, Japan, the Philippines, Sweden, Thailand, and even tiny Liechtenstein...
...Hodgkin's singular achievement was born of a peculiar amalgam of scholarship and domesticity. Her family is scattered now; her husband, whom she married in 1937, is director of the Institute of African Studies in Ghana, where she is now visiting. Her three children are spread among Algeria, Zambia and India. But her old Victorian house in north Oxford still buzzes with her sister's collection of five kids...
During the independence festivities only one noted Zambian failed to share in all the harmony. He is Edward Mukuka Nkoloso, a grade-school science teacher and the director of Zambia's National Academy of Science, Space Research and Philosophy, who claimed the goings-on interfered with his space program to beat the U.S. and the Soviet Union to the moon. Already Nkoloso is training twelve Zambian astronauts, including a curvaceous 16-year-old girl, by spinning them around a tree in an oil drum and teaching them to walk on their hands, "the only way humans can walk...