Word: sevens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After helping fight and win last October's general election, Macleod looked around for a more demanding job. The toughest one in sight was the Colonial Office, and Macleod boned up for it and got it. Within a month, he abolished the state of emergency in Kenya-seven years after the Mau Mau terror began. He toured East and Central Africa, talked with tribal chiefs, heads of government, and dozens of others, including his younger brother, Roderick, 39, a white settler in Kenya...
...highways between the two cities, William Blake's "green & pleasant land" of 150 years ago has been transformed into latter-day Poet John Betjeman's "dear old, bloody old England of telegraph poles and tin." All told, more than 40% of the British population lives in seven monstrous conurbations surrounding London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow...
...discussing help for Aswan's second stage, Nasser's aides now declared that it had been "inevitable" that the Russians should get the contract. They added that the Russians planned to merge the two stages of the billion-dollar job, thereby cutting construction time from ten to seven years. The Russians also promised to lend $258 million at 2½% interest. As West Germany's Erhard, getting there too late, arrived in Egypt this week, the jubilant Egyptians said that there were plenty of other projects in the U.A.R. for the West to help with...
Bouncing into Washington for a Democratic National Committee palaver, Harry Truman spoke more candidly about Dwight D. Eisenhower than he has done in the seven years since Ike succeeded him in the White House. Plain-talked Harry: "I've always been fond of Ike, as you'll find when my book [Mr. Citizen'] comes out, but I'm so happy he had to fire Sherman Adams and go to work...
...will see conversions following every sermon," wrote Africa's famed Christian trail blazer, David Livingstone. "We prepare the way for them." If he had returned to his Dark Continent last week, Missionary Livingstone might have thought that his prophecy was coming true; Evangelist Billy Graham had begun a seven-week "safari for souls" through Africa, and was using methods to attract "decisions for Christ" that would have astonished the dedicated Scot...