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Dealings with Neighborhood Youth Corps enrollees were similarly casual. The intention had been that they would hold jobs for six months and then return to school. Often enough, this was not made clear to NYC enrollees themselves. An eighteen-year-old boy at the agency where I worked was suddenly, in September, given the choice of returning to school or being kicked out of the program two weeks later. He chose the latter...
Botswana's strongest asset is its first president, Sir Seretse Khama, 45, a burly, blueblooded Oxonian who has become one of Africa's staunchest advo cates of racial harmony. Eighteen years ago in London, Seretse cast away his paramount chieftainship of the powerful Bamangwato tribe to marry a blonde English clerk named Ruth Williams. The marriage embarrassed both Seretse's despotic uncle, Tribal Regent Tshekedi Khama, and the Labor government of Clement Attlee, which hustled Seretse into an exile that lasted eight years...
...Rest from Polemics. Eighteen months ago Adams taped two broadcasts urging Negro U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam to put down their arms and return home to fight for racial equality, but he insists that "I never considered myself a Communist." Now, he wisely has little to say about the war except that "we have to find some way to solve it." After visiting his mother in Memphis, he hopes to get a job teaching Mandarin, lead "a quiet life" with his family. As for civil rights or antiwar demonstrations, he says that he wants no part of them. After more...
...survey, most thorough probing ever done of public attitudes toward the schools, was made for the Charles F. Kettering Foundation, which has just launched an Institute for Development of Educational Activities (IDEA) with a $1,200,000 grant aimed at getting ideas out of research libraries and into classrooms. Eighteen California school districts have agreed to try out innovations to be suggested by IDEA'S Dr. John Goodlad, who heads the University Elementary School operated by the University of California at Los Angeles...
...Eighteen-year-old Brigitte Bardot made her first splash there in a bikini, wiggling her way into the hearts of photographers; Simone Signoret's smoldering stare set the place afire back in 1949; Sophia Loren jumped from bulging starlet to blossoming actress when she made the scene in 1955. Ever since it began, the Cannes Film Festival has been a springboard for victory and vulgarity, for fine art and flapdoodle. This year the festival is 20 years old, but it is still deep in the throes of adolescence: serious and intense one moment, strained and silly the next...