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Kroeker has also produced a phonograph record called Ufa Wa Mtedza (Peanut Flour); its rock songs were composed and sung by Peace Corpsman Jack Allison, who dispenses health hints musically. Sample lyric: "Keep away the flies from your baby's eyes." When not at work, Kroeker, the only U.S. businessman in Malawi, relaxes by climbing nearby Mt. Mlanje (9,843 ft.) or spending time with his Malawian wife and three daughters. Though he hopes to turn Nzeru over to Malawian management "possibly within two years," he plans to stay on. He is thinking of diversifying into other products...
Steve Knaebel, 28, Stanford, was a Peace Corpsman in Venezuela, then returned to Stanford for his M.B.A. Now he will combine his business skills and social concerns as an executive of the International Basic Economy Corp., which finances development projects in poorer nations. Knaebel said: "It's the old question: do you want revolution, or do you want to go to work and try to develop resources and improve the world? I think that people today have rejected the New Left view that the system is rotten. They want to get in the system and do something about...
...resolved to break the mold in which family and education had cast him -not, with paint brush but with pencil -he privately published a book of verse. Then, after a bout as a medical corpsman in the Turkish-Montenegrin skirmish before World War I, and marriage to the sister of an Oxford friend, he served the Empire as an assistant district officer in Nigeria. That Empire in its heyday has been described as a "system of outdoor relief for the upper classes." Cary needed the relief; his money...
...remarkable recovery. The Interior Department, which runs the Micronesia Trust Territory for the U.S., may make a decision by the end of summer, perhaps earlier, under pressure from the United Nations Trusteeship Council, which is reviewing U.S. stewardship of the Pacific islands. The U.N. was prodded by a Peace Corpsman's moving plea that urged: "If Bikini is free of radiation and is fit for human habitation, please call on the United States to return these people to their homes...
...October's Pentagon march, but even those happenings were, in the end, frustrating. "It looked more and more as if the physical types of protest-picketing and marching and all that-were having no effect except as an emotional outlet," said Jon Barbieri, 23, a Connecticut-educated Peace Corpsman who came back from India and soon entered McCarthy's campaign. Said Dan Dodd, 23, a tall, tweedy Oregonian who dropped out of Union Theological Seminary to join Gene: "I was thinking of turning in my draft card, but then the campaign began. We're not going...