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...million in foreign currency reserves, boasted one of Africa's highest per capita incomes. Nkrumah squandered it on such expensive status symbols as an international jet airline, which loses almost twice as much money as it earns, and a $20 million international conference site which includes a bulletproof, bombproof, twelve-story apartment hotel that Accra wags call "the Maginot Hilton." To promote his image abroad, he opened 61 foreign embassies; his entourage to Peking last week numbered no fewer than 71 persons...
...Bombproof Pits for Isaiah. Almost all the funds that built the museum came from the New World. The $800,000 Shrine of the Book was bankrolled by the Gottesman Foundation, named for the late Pulp-and-Paper Tycoon Samuel Gottesman. The U.S. Government has contributed $830,000 and the Bronfman museum was a $2,000,000 birthday gift from the children of the 70-year-old Canadian liquor magnate. Billy Rose estimates that his garden cost $1,600,000. But no one seems to mind a bit that this whole art complex lies within gunshot of the barbed-wire border...
...best-sellers deal with the theme of atomic war. But unlike Fail-safe, in which a mere two cities are destroyed, Triumph obliterates two continents. The Russians--those traditional villains--start a war, their cunning leaders having first stashed away several thousand people in bombproof shelters. These people will provide a nucleus for Soviet world domination once the bothersome populations of both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. have been eliminated...
Knowing which among the plethora of performers stand out most is a matter of taste and knowledge-and part of the critic's job, as TIME sees it. So, in weeks to come, as the occasions arise, Murphy in his bombproof shelter will attempt to rank the outstanding violinists, sopranos and tenors...
Moving silently across 21-inch radar screens, the dime-sized blips traced the passage of jet aircraft overhead. At electronic consoles shirtsleeved men spoke into pushbutton telephones, scanned slender strips of coded paper punched out by high-speed computers. Thus, in a bombproof building south of Oakland, Calif., the U.S.'s most modern air traffic control center last week went into operation...