Word: zanzibar
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Shotover is a crazy old man of eighty-eight, drunken and self-confessedly futile, yet hedged about, like one of Yeats' Lear-like old men, with an almost sinister magnificence. His crews believe that "he sold himself to the devil in Zanzibar, and can divine water, spot gold, explode a cartridge in your pocket with a glance of his eye, and see the truth hidden in the heart of men." Made up with a white beard in a wretchedly unsuccessful attempt to look like G.B.S., "Mr. Evans' Captain," as A. E. Watts acutely notices in the Traveler, "is a cute...
...bolt of cotton, a kerosene lamp, a bicycle-it is almost invariably an Indian dukah wallah in a filthy, tin-roofed shop that sells to him. In Kenya, Asians pay one-third of the colony's indirect taxes and run some of Nairobi's smartest shops; in Zanzibar they control the clove market; in Tanganyika they dominate the economy. In Uganda, where before the war Indians were responsible for as much as 90% of the trade, there is a saying: "Europeans have the power, Africans have the land, and the Asians have the money...
High Adventure with Lowell Thomas (CBS, 8-9 p.m.). The modern Halliburton's latest 3,500-mile safari from the Bahrein Islands to Zanzibar with son and camera...
...innumerable ceremonies, Nkrumah presented his handsome young Egyptian bride Fatia to his countrymen. (They have dubbed her "Mammy Water." the local word for mermaid.) Welcoming such specially invited representatives of "the oppressed peoples of Africa" as Tanganyika's Julius Nyerere, Kenya's Tom Mboya and Zanzibar's Ali Mushin, Nkrumah said: "We here in Ghana should not fail to realize the unique position of responsibility in which the achievement of our independence has placed...
...airport, hop a plane, and have another Hertz auto meet him at the terminal abroad. The company will first blanket Europe with rental agencies, then push on to South America and the rest of the world. Eventually, a traveler will be able to rent a car from Aachen to Zanzibar simply by phoning his nearest Hertz or American Express office, travel agent, airline or shipping company...