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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.--Disappointed missile scientists were at a loss yesterday to explain what happened to the Army's latest space venture--an attempt to blast a Beacon balloon satellite into orbit...
...similar to that at an American college, yet the campus still has a distinctively African orientation. It shows up in little ways: the beautiful mahogany and ebony furniture, the stylized Yoruba art work in the Protestant and Catholic chapels. And, more important, it is evident in students' concerns. The Beacon, a UCI journal, features a book review of J.C. Amamoo's The New Ghana and an editorial on the recent conference of the eight independent African states, concluding with a stern protest to the French government should it carry out its proposal to test atomic weapons in the Sahara...
...effects certain changes in the educational system. First, it alters its whole purpose. Schools and universities are expected to turn out men motivated and trained to further the development of their country, rather than well-rounded individuals trained in the liberal arts. The ideal, as set forth in The Beacon, is not so much "knowledge for its sake" as "education inspired with a social purpose...
...world sick with dark quarrels and deadly stratagems the friendly mission of the Ambassadors Eisenhower glowed beacon bright. But when the world arose after the Sabbath for another week of work, the bright rays were already obscured. Nasserist flames had burst out with explosive violence in Iraq, most friendly and most prosperous of the West's Arab neighbors in the Middle East; King Feisal's government had been thrown down, its stout-hearted leaders were either dead or defeated refugees, and Nassermen were in control. President Eisenhower sat down with the National Security Council to study one more...
...Beacon in the Tower. At 83, and just two months away from a gall-bladder operation, Herbert Hoover moved about a little stiffly but the trip to Brussels was, in fact, just another event in a still-crowded life. "You should not retire from work," he said in 1956, "or you will shrivel up into a nuisance . . . talking to everybody about your pains and pills and income tax." In his apartment-office in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Tower, Herbert Hoover keeps busy up to 16 hours a day, keeps two of his three fulltime secretaries on hand seven days...