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...less murky prose, The Rich and the Poor is a Baedeker to the Great Global Society. Based on a series of lectures for the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. in 1961, Economist Ward's book is an evangelistic yet pragmatic argument that the developed nations must generously employ their scientific and economic resources to help the world's havenots. Johnson has repeatedly echoed the same theme...
...good on the whole, but rather tedious. Her facial expressions tended to be too artificial, falling into set patterns for each emotion she wanted to convey, and Johan's artful interplay with the audience lost its easy intimacy and became rather forced when she attempted to employ it. Jack Salomon, as the priest, was more natural and consequently funnier...
...they may be, but Andrews residents are proud too. Under the leadership of Mayor Percy B. Ferebee, a development corporation was formed, and $200,000 was raised. With this as bait, Andrews in two years signed a furniture company. Today, construction is under way on a factory that will employ 900-about three times as many men as there now are in town. Yes, Government agencies helped, but what really did it was the willingness of the people to invest in their community, and their unwillingness to sit slackly by and wait for the Government to do something for them...
...launching of Sputnik made education and intellectualism newly desirable. The Kennedy Administration made it glamorous in a slightly Broadway-tinted way by creating a sort of Camelot for brains. If not quite in the same style, the most distinguished old grad of Texas' Southwest Teachers College continues to employ intellectuals to help...
...tall man, France's Charles de Gaulle has mastered a difficult diplomatic trick: the art of stooping without actually bending an inch. He likes to employ it whenever his allies get particularly incensed at his prideful, nationalistic policies, since it invariably produces a smile of relief all around without changing anything. Last week, as the 15 ministers of the NATO Council assembled in London to a fanfare from six trumpeters of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. De Gaulle, though not present himself, was at his stooping best...