Word: except
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Bless America to Handel's "Hallelujah" chorus, with a strong obbligato of carnival songs and sambas-rang out at every corner. Rio throbbed with happy emotion. "It was even bigger than our welcome for the Brazilian troops at the end of the war," said an awed carioca, "except that then there was lots of crying." Said Ike: "The most impressive entrance to a city I've ever...
...work alone in a hideaway upstairs office, where he can hear the sounds of the best dance band in Africa, arising from the first-floor exclusive Equator Club, which is open to white hunters, rich settler types, Ernest Hemingway, Robert Ruark, and Hollywood visitors-but not to Africans. Except on trips, Mboya has little time these days for the nightclubs and dancing he loves (he once shook the maracas in a dance band), or for the many girl friends, not all of them African, whom Tom has always attracted. His current flame is Pamela Odede, 21, slender, poised, and graceful...
...official state of emergency. Wedded to a policy of avowed racial "partnership," Sir Roy is in fact guided and moved by a Parliament that rejects a political voice for Africans, and by a public opinion that supports laws and customs not much different from South Africa's-except, say its critics, for the addition of hypocrisy. The son of a Russian-Polish immigrant who gave up a profitable fur trade in the U.S. Midwest to try his luck in the South African diamond rush, husky young Roland Welensky left school at 14 and wandered all over Africa, taking jobs...
...feminist objection to Egyptian customs. In the country districts. Moslem men often married and divorced as Western husbands buy and discard suits. There are more than 57,000 divorces annually. The deserted wife and her children were usually denied everything, and most country women, because of ignorance, did little except mourn their fate...
...past, manufacturers often pirated Parisian designs, but usually in a bits-and-pieces manner; seldom, except in the most expensive dress shops, were perfect copies sold. But in the past few years line-for-line copying has become a big multimillion-dollar business that is condoned by the leading fashion houses...