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Architect Harry Weese was in trouble. He had just arrived in Accra, the palm-fringed capital of West Africa's Gold Coast, and what had seemed a minor problem back in his Chicago office suddenly began growing like a tropical weed. Young (41), function-minded Architect Weese had been commissioned by the State Department, on a low budget of $300,000, to design an embassy and staff residences in hot, humid Accra, with the stipulation that his design must harmonize with the indigenous architectural tradition. But apart from thatch or corrugated iron and adobe, he found that there...
...qualify as architecture were some modern boxy structures put up by Europeans. But they were Mediterranean in style, not equatorial, and were made of concrete, which soaks up the sun's blasts all day and reradiates them all night. In addition, air conditioning could not be trusted, as Accra's sparse electric power often fails...
...would-be adventurers in the Care Capriccio should get a big bang out of "A Far Place." It is by an ex-MacLeish student, who spent two years in Accra, Dakar, and Abidjan working for Texaco, and has also played factory hand, circus roustabout, department store salesman, U.P. Staff correspondent, and Associate Editor of the Paris Review. He also spent a year writing "A Far Place," in Paris, before becoming a Barnard English teacher...
...four weeks of campaigning, tensions heightened. Nkrumah's opposition stumped upcountry Ashanti and the Northern Territories. The Territories, on the edge of the Sahara, are mostly Moslem; the center region of Ashanti is run by tribal chieftains who recognize that the city slickers down in the capital of Accra threaten ancient tribal ways. The new N.L.M. party talked up a federal system with decentralized powers. The Gold Coast is only about as big as Nebraska, however, with only 4,500,000 people, and Nkrumah argued that "regionalism must not replace nationalism...
Armstrong & Co. left Accra without the triumphal procession that CBS had planned, but leaving a trail of good will anyhow. A band of young high-life musicians who followed him devotedly throughout the tour went back to their nightclubs feeling good-the master had told them they sounded just like the jazzmen in old-time New Orleans. "Man, it was just very," said one of them in his daze. Just very what? someone asked. "Just very great," he sighed...