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Do you know Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Urdu, Mandarin, Arabic? If so, could you merely understand a foreigner speaking the language, or read a newspaper, give a short talk about the U.S., write a letter? Can you drive a tractor, run a bulldozer, handle surveyor's tools, operate a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Youth: How About Urdu? | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

CAIRO last week wore the synthetic festive air peculiar to Nasserism. In English, Arabic and Swahili, signs and pennants screamed: "Death to Lumumba's Murderers"; "French Killers, Hands Off Algiers"; "Freedom. Freedom to Kenyatta." As the smiling U.A.R. President arrived at Cairo University auditorium to welcome delegates to the...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GAMAL ABDEL NASSER: Hero in Search of a Triumph | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

Arabic 80 million

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cataloguing Babel | 2/24/1961 | See Source »

Discipline and living conditions do not provide the only contrast between New College and the Harvard House. The entire approach to education is different. For one thing, the Oxford curriculum is not committed to a rounded, liberal arts program. The University assumes that most undergraduates have gained a broad literary...

Author: By Rupert H. Wilkinson, | Title: Oxford College Combines Luxury, Austerity | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

Even as Nasser hobnobs with Africa's new political leaders at Casablanca and sends planes to supply Congolese revolutionaries, he is also driving to extend his influence southward through religion. Islam, with an estimated 88 million African followers, is the continent's biggest religion, far surpassing Christianity with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: U.A.R.: Calling All Africans | 2/3/1961 | See Source »

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