Word: african
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Pressure on Oil. Under such circumstances, the talks on resuming the flights remained stalemated-as does virtually everything else about the two-year-old war. Neither army is able to mount a consistent offensive. Pope Paul, during his African visit, was unable to bring Ojukwu and Nigeria's leader, General Yakubu Gowon, to a bargaining table. Neither were Harold Wilson, Charles de Gaulle or Haile Selassie, who heads the Organization of African Unity, which meets next month in Addis Ababa to discuss...
...challenge that confronted heart-transplant teams in Blaiberg's case, as it has in all others, was more medical than surgical. The South African dentist was 58 when his own heart reached such an advanced stage of slow, progressive failure that it could no longer pump enough oxygenated blood to support any physical activity. After having been obliged to give up his dental practice, Blaiberg was bedfast. It was problematical whether he would hold out for another month or even a week. In these circumstances, Barnard felt fully justified in removing Blaiberg's heart and replacing it with...
Part of the LP's influence has to do with distribution. Today virtually every form of sound known to and made by man, from primitive African chants to serialistic chamber music - "the old, the new, the modern, the academic, the screwball," as Conductor Erich Leinsdorf puts it - is easily available to increasingly sophisticated listeners. What the composer writes is indelibly affected by that fact. Italy's Luciano Berio notes that Debussy was influenced by Javanese music, but had to discover it by pure chance. If it had not been per formed at the Paris Universal Exhibition...
...Fourteen African countries that once were French colonies devalued their franc-linked currencies and the Belgian franc came under heavy selling pressure, but the more important world currencies fared reasonably well. As expected, speculators sold British pounds and bought undervalued German marks, but not in quantities great enough to produce any crisis-not even after Britain at midweek published figures showing that its chronic trade deficit widened to $89 million in July from $60 million in June...
...city Durrell called "the wine press of love." Fox dispatched a second-string camera crew for a brisk six weeks' worth of location filming, but Cukor shot most of the picture at home in California-on a set that conjured up visions of Sidney Greenstreet-Peter Lorre North African thrillers. The ersatz locale is painfully obvious. "Justine," wrote Cyril Connolly, "is the spirit of Alexandria, sensual and skeptical, self-torturing and passionate." Cukor and his collaborators have raided Durrell's exotic garden and left only a pale hothouse flower...