Word: africa
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Coca-Cola's president, J. Paul Austin, 51, becomes chief executive officer, a title he takes over from Board Chairman Lee Talley. Austin demonstrates the growing value of foreign experience to American corporations, for he was Coca-Cola's export chief to sub-Saharan Africa for four years. As president since 1962, he has pushed some of the measures that diversified and brightened up a company that was tending to complacency. He decided to introduce the "lift-top" cap on Coke bottles and cans, helped move the company into coffee roasting...
Gardner ("Mike") Cowles was traveling through darkest Africa last February when he bumped into an old acquaintance: U.S. Ambassador to Kenya William Attwood. Seizing the opportunity, Cowles offered Attwood a job as editorial director of Cowles publications. Attwood was hesitant about accepting; he had scored a distinct success in Kenya, as he had earlier in Guinea, by practicing a quiet, cheerful diplomacy, by never forcing his views on Africans and by always listening to theirs. He had even survived a bad bout of polio and returned to the job as zestful as ever...
Attwood, however, will not entirely forsake Africa, plans to continue to write stories about that continent. "I think you can do as much for Africa in journalism as you can in government," he says. "Africa is very much underreported, even though it is making history every day." And shortly before he left Kenya, Attwood bought 40 acres overlooking the Nairobi Game Park-a possible retirement haven...
Unlike the Peace Corps, Volunteer Teachers for Africa does not represent the American government and can work in places where political problems are delicate. This year two teachers are going to Bechuanaland; at least four will be teaching refugees from Mozambique and Rhodesia. Draft boards, however, grant deferment to V.T.A. as well as Peace Corps members; only two of fifteen members this year have been refused. V.T.A. teachers are presently training by studying Swahili and teaching English to Puerto Ricans in Boston's South...
What follows are two accounts of teaching in Africa by members of last year's project. One found, in building a school, that problems of educational development can be quite concrete. The other discovered that nation-building is a big job, but can produce remarkable results...