Word: continente
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Inside the bargain-rate, $200-a-month Lansing office, filing cabinets bulged with letters from well-wishers, and a few recently acquired tomes on Viet Nam occupied an unpainted bookcase. Situated in a tumble-down neighborhood four blocks from the Michigan state capitol, Governor George Romney's new head...
One measure of this success is the fact that Prime Minister Harold Wilson, long opposed to joining the European Six, seems converted to the cause. Last week he stumped the Continent to gain support for British membership. If Charles de Gaulle ever withdraws his veto and lets Britain in, there...
Most reporters patrol relatively limited beats-a courthouse, a capitol, a country, a war. John Gunther, 65, covers the earth, ceaselessly crossing borders and oceans as he works at his self-imposed task of describing "the known political world of today continent by continent." The global Gunther shelf lacks only...
Ten Feet by Five Miles. Gunther makes an entertaining guide. He has a discerning eye for the arresting fact and the improbable statistic that not only sums up a complex situation but rivets the attention of the reader. Along his tour he notes that a farm in Chile, the beanpole...
Out of Focus. Such tidbits illuminate a subject; they do not necessarily explain it. In grappling with the riddle of South America, a continent that was colonized half a century before North America and is still trying to catch up with modern times, Tour Guide Gunther sometimes finds the going...