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Asia is not exactly noted for enlightened penal systems or livable prisons. Yet. thanks in part to several million dollars in U.S. aid, Saigon authorities boast that most of Con Son's 9,500 prisoners now enjoy work in vegetable gardens and craft shops as well as supervised surf bathing. But it was something else that Democratic Congressmen Augustus F. Hawkins of California and William R. Anderson of Tennessee were looking for last week when they visited the island as part of a congressional fact-finding team...
...ending is both an apology and a boast. Barnard seems to have been genuinely sad to lose his patient but also delighted to face the world. The worry about Dr. Barnard since then has been just that: Is he more concerned with his celebrity than with his arcane art? After facing the nation, he has dined with Gina Lollobrigida, chatted with Sophia Loren and Pope Paul. Across a thousand gossip columns he flashed a smile so wide that it looked as if he were advertising newly capped teeth. Then he was divorced by his wife back in Cape Town...
...antidote to campus disorder, dozens of U.S. colleges have lately invited students to share the chores of administration. Key faculty committees boast voting student members; boards of trustees bloom with recent graduates. Now the trustees of New Hampshire's Franconia College have gone a step farther. They have just named a graduate student as the school's new president. He is Leon Botstein...
...Congo is the heart of Africa," Joseph Mobutu likes to boast. "When the heart is ailing, the rest of the body suffers. But the heart has resumed its normal beat." By any standard, the Congo's President has reason to be proud of his country's recent progress. When the Belgian Congo received its independence ten years ago this week, it was woefully ill prepared for self-rule; of its 14 million citizens, only 13 were university graduates. On the fifth day of independence, the army rose in mutiny. In the ensuing seven years, the mineral-rich land...
...taxes. Some ranking Tories disagreed. Attacking Wilson on the economy, they argued, would be hitting him where he was strongest. Wilson was indeed making much of Britain's ability to pay its own way at last. On his forays into the countryside, he often began with a proud boast that Britain was no longer facing the world with cap in hand...