Word: careful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lawyer is Graham French, grandson of Drug Firm Founder Clayton French. For years, French gave CARE donations to the poor abroad instead of sending Christmas presents to friends at home. And then one day he heard of Ike's suggestion that private citizens should help alongside the Government's huge aid programs. French decided to create an entire community. CARE told him it would cost $10,000, and French chose Korea. "After all the years of trouble, I thought they deserved some help. Korea is one of the outposts of the free world...
...allotted land to a group of refugees who had slipped over the border from Communist North Korea. French's money bought a farm tool set for each family-sickles, hoes, shovels, picks, pitchforks. Then came fertilizer and seed, and a pair of bullocks. French got regular reports from CARE: when the first crops were harvested, when the first houses were completed, what special problems came up. Korea's winter is too harsh for farming, so French bought a machine to make straw rope for the village to use and barter. New Chorwon called it The Graham French-CARE...
...village is now doing so well that the CARE adviser makes only occasional visits to check on its progress. Graham French himself is turning to other projects. He gave $10,000 to establish a similar village in South Viet Nam, another $10,000 to rehabilitate 200 wounded Korean veterans in a third village. A fourth $10,000 went to buy 30 fishing junks for two more Korean villages, and yet another $10,000 sent a mobile health unit to combat disease in the Philippines...
...Soviet control of East Germany and of Eastern Europe is such a clear fact of life, as Khrushchev likes to call it, why does Khrushchev care so much whether it is formally acknowledged by the West? Obviously, such recognition would give the final stamp of legitimacy to Soviet colonialism. By destroying all hope in the conquered lands, the West could indeed relax tensions for Russia, but at a cost of weakening itself...
...thing about the book as a whole: a convincing voice." Most poets seem to agree. John Crowe Ransom calls Hodgson's Eve and The Bull "great, wonderful poems that will live forever." But the convincing voice itself speaks alone at the end of a muddy road, where few care to journey. Says the Minerva postmaster, summing up the town's spooky presentiment about its mysterious poet: "Oh, he's a brilliant man all right. But such a funny fella. He just sits out there and writes and writes...