Word: zanzibar
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...flown a long way from the wing-and-a-prayer operation that the British organized in 1946 to open up what was then known as British East Africa. Starting with six buzzing, roaring De Havilland biplanes, E.A.A. pilots crisscrossed the area's four territories-Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (merged into Tanzania in 1964)-bringing air service to such remote spots as Lake Victoria and Kilimanjaro. When it ventured overseas in 1957 with DC-4 flights to London and Bombay, E.A.A. happily discovered that traffic in English civil servants and schoolboys could make up the losses on domestic flights...
Posters have been used to promote everything from Jane Avril to Zanzibar, but Pop Artist Robert Rauschenberg, 42, believes that salesmanship begins at home. A new 17-ft. by 4½-ft. Rauschenberg poster at Manhattan's Whitney Museum advertises the artist himself. Entitled Autobiography, the gaudy billboard includes a life history in telegraphese, his horoscope, and a skeletal portrait of himself composed from 13 X rays. With the backing of a group headed by Poster-Art Enthusiast Marion Javits, wife of the U.S. Senator, 2,000 copies of the work will be reproduced and sold to hard-core...
...examples of good government. In the Ivory Coast, President Felix Houphouet-Boigny-who before independence served as French Minister of Overseas Territories -is building a booming economy that has raised the living standards of his people enormously. Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere has managed to absorb Communist-minded Zanzibar without falling prey to the Reds, last year promoted a unique experiment in one-party elections: his Tanzania Africa National Union put up two candidates for each post, with the result that several of his own Cabinet ministers were defeated. Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta has overridden the intense tribal...
...experience which V.T.A. members find in East Africa is broad and exciting enough to justify their enthusiasm. Project members have founded three schools and helped staff a dozen others from Zanzibar to Mt. Kilimanjaro. Several have been hired by the Tanzanian government; one became assistant to the Minister of Finance, another was director of a refugee camp for 6000 Watutsi from Rwanda...
...William Howard, 51, better known as Dorothy Lamour, hit the road once again, this time to exotic Chicago, where she slinked into the Drake Hotel's Camellia House to try out an act sans Crosby and Hope. Far from Singapore, Zanzibar and Bali, Dottie wore shoes and a sequined gown, made it clear she's said so long to sarongs. "No more flitting around the jungle," she announced after leading a sing-along of Moonlight Bay and kissing a few pates around ringside...