Word: coloring
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Scattered across this diverse land, Nigeria's cities throb with the vigor of noisy commerce and the color of exotic dyes. In the federal capital of Lagos (pronounced Lay-gahs), where gleaming buildings rise among the slums, the streets are a cacophony of honking autos and a torrent of heedless jaywalkers. Lagos' open-air market is a constant melee: picking their way through tall piles of blinding indigo or scarlet cloth, vast platters of red peppers on bright green leaves, and mounds of white salt, hordes of shrieking women peddle alum, alarm clocks, Hershey bars, live chickens, hair...
...white and blue. Even the simplest designs caused headaches. In Chad, the Assembly wrangled for two days, and the 85 Deputies suggested 85 separate flags. In making its final choice, the government was careful to eliminate green, which for many Africans symbolizes Islam but in Chad is the color of the opposition party. Cameroun happily prepared to embellish its flag with a shrimp, since the country's name derives from the Portuguese word for shrimp, camarāo. Western observers hastily advised that world reaction might be derisive, and Cameroun settled for a prosaic tricolor...
...Jack the Shot," as he is known by color-seeking sports-writers and by defeated rivals who have known the Sting of arrived jump not the Crusaders' only offensive thread...
...Bell Telephone Hour (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). The Music of Romance, dramatized episodes from Tchaikovsky's life, with Helen Hayes as his patroness, Mme. Von Meek, playing opposite Farley Granger as the composer. Color...
...Place Like Home (NBC, 5:30-6:30 p.m.). A revue with music and lyrics by Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer, the Once Upon a Mattress team, with José Ferrer and his wife Rosemary Clooney, Dick Van Dyke and Carol Burnett. Color...