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...DAS was created in 1962 to provide economic advice to under-developed countries which request it. It currently has advisory teams in Liberia and Ghana. In previous years, the staff for these two units was selected from throughout the United States and western Europe and few staff members returned to Harvard after their work in Africa...
...last year the DAS changed it policy. According to Gustav Papanek, Development Advisor of the DAS, "Our conviction was that we were doing a better job in the field than in contributing to research and education at Harvard. The only way we could do more of the second was to bring more people back." Consequently, the DAS will, in the summer of 1969, bring to Harvard two staff members who have been working in Ghana. These men would be in a position to teach undergraduate courses on their experiences in Africa...
...soon they'll get the word from Dr. Benjamin Spock, 65, on a different subject-namely Baby and Child Care. The handbook that made the good doctor a fortune (20 million copies to date) is being published in Russian-which may bring more nyets than da, da, das once Russian mothers get a load of what he says. Spock advises light garments and laying babies on their stomachs, but Russian mothers swaddle infants tightly and set them on their backs; he urges early feeding of solids, Russian gurglers stick to milk and cereal; he advises never force a child...
...greater than in the U.S. or British navy. The officers' quarters are far more spacious, their food far tastier, their dining rooms more elegant, their uniforms much fancier. The disparity in pay between officers and men is right out of the times that drove Karl Marx to write Das Kapital; a first-term seaman earns $5 a month, a lieutenant earns 100 times more, and a rear admiral 400 times that much. There is an additional discrimination that probably is due to the Soviet Union's problem with alcoholism. While officers may tipple in moderation onshore?and those...
...most ubiquitous intelligence service. Though he will slip into retirement as furtively as he conducted his operations, Gehlen can take some pride in the fact that his reputation for omniscience has entered the German language. In response to an unanswerable question, a West German is likely to reply, "Das weiss nur der Gehlen" (Only Gehlen knows that...