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ARCHITECT WEESE'S DESIGN [for the new U.S. Embassy at Accra-March 4] is COMFORTING AFTER THE EPIDEMIC OF AUDITORIUMS FASHIONED AS STRANGE BIRDS ALIGHTING BACKWARD INTO THE WIND, CHURCH MONSTROSITIES, CRATES ON END AND DETROIT ROAD RUNNER STYLING...
That afternoon, to savor the exotic culture of the back-country people, the Nixons drove 20 miles from Accra to the hill town of Aburi. The colorfully dressed tribesmen assigned Nixon a mahogany throne. Pat, dandling a native infant on her knee, sat beside him on a smaller throne, watching as the tribal drums thrummed and the natives danced their age-old rituals...
Help Offered. Only a few days before, the Vice President (in lightweight business suit) and his party attended the official birth of the new nation of Ghana (see FOREIGN NEWS). Nixon, only one of hundreds of officials representing 69 foreign nations and territories at the ceremonies in Accra, had a pleasant, champagne-sipping talk with Ghana's U.S.-schooled Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah, told Nkrumah that the U.S. is prepared to offer help in the new country's development. He chatted with one of Britain's top emissaries, Lord Privy Seal Richard A. ("Rab") Butler, talked about...
...week's end Nixon and party-including Congresswoman Frances P. Bolton, Congressman Charles C. Diggs Jr. (one of the three Negroes in the House) and Walter A. Gordon, Negro governor of the Virgin Islands-flew into Accra, capital of the Gold Coast, to represent the U.S. at ceremonies marking the transformation of that British colony into the independent Commonwealth State of Ghana...
...hotel. It showed a provincial chieftain's long adobe hut, with evenly-spaced, pointed buttresses made of mud that speared high above the slanted roof. Weese tucked it away for future reference. Then he went hunting for mahogany, which turned out to be so plentiful in Accra that it is used for Coca-Cola crates. Using that primitive tool of building research, the knife, he personally verified two facts: 1) termites feast on mahogany (the reason builders had stopped using it), but. 2) heartwood mahogany, placed well up from the ground, had resisted the white ants 60 years...