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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These overseas Chinese are the cadre of Taiwan's small but surprisingly successful technical assistance program to underdeveloped nations in Africa, the Middle East, Asia and Latin America Begun in 1961, "Project Vanguard, run with little publicity on a shoestring budget of $5,000,000 a year, today has 1 239 technical experts in 27 countries...
...Nixon. Last week the Los Angeles Times delivered its endorsement, explaining that the G.O.P. nominee has the best chance of "uniting the country and harnessing its energies" because he is most acceptable to the country's vast, silent middle class. The Chicago Tribune will undoubtedly back Nixon; its East Coast cousin, the New York Daily News, last weekend came out strongly for the Republicans...
...steadily risen to the status of a literary cult figure. College students rank him in the pantheon of literary gurus with Dostoevsky, Tolkien and Golding. In hippie hovels, those of his novels already available in English-Steppenwolf, Magister Ludi, Siddhartha, Demian, The Journey to the East, and Narcissus and Goldmund-are family bibles. Another early Hesse novel, Beneath the Wheel (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $4.95), has now appeared in English. It will undoubtedly attract his youthful admirers too, although it is less likely to arouse their admiration, since it is too labored and predictable...
...central issue in the strike, community control of schools in the Ocean Hill-Brownsville section of Brooklyn, began taking shape two years ago. In September 1966, angry ghetto residents made one of the first concerted efforts to take over a local school--I.S. 201 in East Harlem...
Meanwhile, the Ford Foundation decided to test the I.S. 201 formula. In July 1967, Ford gave the City money for three trial districts--one around I.S. 201, one in Manhattan's lower east side, and the third in Ocean Hill-Brownsville. All the districts were to remain within the school system, but local governing boards, elected by the school communities, gained almost complete control over their district's schools...