Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...conference that drew up plans for the Common Market, the British government did not even bother to send a minister-apparently in the happy conviction that the Common Market would never get started. When it became clear that the Common Market could work, charged the Common Marketeers, Britain deliberately set out to destroy or dilute...
...Justice François Erasmus proposed to rid the cities of "idlers and other superfluous Bantu" by sending them back to the Bantu areas in the back country. White employers had already made "idlers" of thousands by firing Africans who had stayed away from work, and Erasmus' police set to work rounding them up. There was hopeful talk of a massive speedup in Verwoerd's program to create a group of rural statelets called Bantustans for use as a faraway residence for most of the black population. The government also launched a crash program to encourage more white...
Then they set off on a barnstorming tour sponsored by Manhattan's American Committee on Africa, a liberal pressure group that is headed by the Rev. (Methodist) George M. Houser. Next week Banda flies back to London to continue his negotiations with the British government, but Kaunda has a month-long schedule of visits to Washington, the Mid-West, and the South. High point: a meeting with some young U.S. Negro leaders of the lunch-counter campaign in the South, to compare notes on tactics...
...leftover ballots marked for Rhee's running mate, 63-year-old Vice President-elect Lee Ki Poong-the rioters moved on to Masan's police headquarters, smashed through a police cordon and wrecked the station. When Masan's police chief came driving up, infuriated women set fire to his Jeep and beat him so badly that at week's end he was still in a coma. For the next two days, the students of Masan paraded ceaselessly through town bearing placards that read "Down with Fraudulent Elections" and "Can Freedom Gained Through Blood Be Taken Away...
...Oscar Niemeyer, 52, a dormant Communist ("I am too old to change," he once said), and an old pupil and admirer of Costa, casually agreed during an automobile ride with his friend Kubitschek in 1956 to design Brasilia's major buildings. He set to work at a government salary of $300 a month to make a city for "free and happy people who appreciate pure and simple things...