Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week the politicians, organized by U.S. Senator Robert Kerr, decided to trim the redhead down a size or two. In county meetings to pick delegates to the state convention, only seven of 77 counties elected Edmondson backers, thus ended his bid to name a new state chairman...
...Emperor was not permitted to see his grandson for 48 hours, but sent traditional gifts-a papier-máché dog with amulet to ward off diseases, a wooden doll to symbolize the coming of a "heavenly child," a seven-inch "sword of protection" wrapped in red brocade. At the Naming Ceremony, a chamberlain presented the Emperor with a specially woven sheet of paper containing the three possible names submitted by the grand chamberlain (final choice: Naruhito Hironomiya). It was almost as if nothing had changed since Akihito himself was born 27 years...
Last week Communist guerrillas sneaked into a jungle hut west of Saigon, lopped off the heads of seven peasants who had informed on them, and left the heads impaled on sticks beside the hut. Terrorists also beheaded five rural officials, beat three youths to death with hammers. Deaths in this "little war" now average...
...Africa's broad western bulge facing the Atlantic, freedom is already established or imminent almost everywhere. There, independent Ghana, Guinea and Liberia will soon be joined by the rest of France's fragmenting African empire. At least seven new sovereign African states will come into existence in 1960. First on the timetable was Cameroon; soon to come: Togoland, the sprawling, wealthy Belgian Congo, the Mali Federation of Senegal and French Sudan, little Somalia, and Madagascar. On Oct. 1, the 35 million people of Nigeria, most populous of all, will get formal independence. By year...
When Kenyatta, accused of fostering Mau Mau, was sent to serve a seven-year prison term in the Northern Frontier...