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...pretty, 19-year-old Nancy Wills of Bristol, Pa., this sort of routine has become almost second nature. So it has to the eleven other U.S. girls of the Friends Service Unit at Cuautla, Mexico. The unit is one of two such Quaker-run projects in Mexico; the other, for boys, is at Yautepec. At its annual meeting in Philadelphia last week, the American Friends Service Committee, in response to invitations from local Mexican officials, approved plans to carry on its practice of augmenting year-round units with at least five summer groups...
...Payoff. The twelve girls of the Cuautla Service Unit sign up for six to eight months, pay $35 a month for their board. They live in an unused patio of a public school under the easygoing supervision of the project's Quaker directors, Dr. & Mrs. Raymond Binford. Each morning, after a 20-minute period of Quakerly meditation, the group separates for its various duties - helping the Mexican nurses at the clinic, accompanying them on their rounds, supervising playground activities in the school...
Though some of the girls at Cuautla admit that their chief motive for joining was the prospect of adventure, most of them have found real satisfaction in the Friends' experiment in grassroots international relations. Said 18-year-old Gay Bauman of New York last week: "So many tourists . . . have acted so badly here that it is almost automatic for the Mexicans to view you coldly. They are beginning to know that all Americans aren...
...little pictures of the White Church of Arequipa, Peru, and the Churches of Cuautla in Mexico are fresh and charming, and the Canal View done in Venice recalls Corot's sketches of Rome. The Boy Reading and the Musicians suggest the full chi, aroscuro method of Velasquez. There is an interesting and spirited copy of the Olivarez of Velasquez. To emphasize Dr. Ross' relation to the great masters is certainly not to deny his originality but rather to praise his achievements which are rooted in a study of the best precedents of the past...
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