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...briefly considering study to enter the priesthood, he eventually earned bachelor's degrees in French and modern history, and a masters in history. Not surprisingly given his background, Hume wrote his masters thesis on the social and economic history of Londonderry. Throughout the '60s, he taught history at St. Colomb's college in Londonderry...
...light, flesh and spirit, and he never lost his conviction that they danced at the end of fate's string. If his plays are sometimes episodic and full of antic despair, they also display the probing gallantry of quests. Ghelderode could say with his hero in Christophe Colomb: "Farewell, America, you were too easy to discover," and then go on voyaging to hidden continents of the human psyche...
...color. Thus TIME's eight pages of color in August on Southeast Asia showed the look - the beauty, the languor, the hardships, the progress - of a place that has become a cold war battleground. And the narrow alleys of the Casbah and the modern technological city of Colomb-Bechar (the Cape Canaveral of the Sahara), as shown in eight pages of color on Algeria last April, coincided with the news of the Generals' Revolt in Algiers...
...Sahara's wealth is not confined to oil: southeast of Tindouf lies what may prove one of the world's largest iron deposits (an estimated 2 billion tons of better-than-50% ore), and below the coalmining center of Colomb-Béchar geologists have found a lode of manganese capable of yielding 50,000 tons a year. Today the great cost of transporting them out of the Sahara excludes exploitation of these heavy ores. But Soustelle, firmly if vaguely, continues to talk of the day when "we shall see materialize in the Sahara...
...Francisco's KPFA-FM there was a book review by Bohemian Poet Kenneth Rexroth; the next, a talk by Art Critic Hubert Crehan on "The 'Scandalous' Art of D.H. Lawrence''; the day after, a performance of Paul Claudel's Christophe Colomb in French, with Jean-Louis Barrault, and for the kiddies a dramatization of The Wind in the Willows. Listeners could tune in talks by a pacifist, a spokesman for the Socialist Workers Party, the conservatives' conservative Russell Kirk, and a psychiatrist who testified at the trial of Leopold and Loeb...