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...Ethiopia, two California schoolteachers-Beulah Bartlett, 65, and Blythe Monroe, 66-moved in on an abandoned schoolhouse, whitewashed it themselves, turned it into an excellent training school for native teachers. The spinster pair earned a special audience from His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, and Beulah said after the meeting, "Oh, we think he's just the sweetest little man in the world." Beyond Beulah and Blythe, the Peace Corps' 276 schoolteachers in Ethiopia have caused a remarkable change. Peace Corps teachers constitute half the faculty of every high school outside Addis Ababa. Since they bolstered Ethiopia...
...council and program for economic cooperation. Such a grouping might help heal the rifts among the continent's current rival blocs-chief among them the left-leaning Casablanca group (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt), and the more moderate Monrovia group, now composed of Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, the former Belgian Congo, and most of the former French dependencies...
...Boston Marathon, thus becoming the 17th foreigner to win the Patriot's Day race in the last 18 years. A bookkeeper in a cotton mill, Vandendriessche, 30, loped leisurely through the Newton hills, had no thought of winning until two miles from the finish when he found Ethiopia's heavily favored Abebe Bikila staggering rubber-legged just ahead. Vandendriessche dashed past Bikila, crossed the finish line 500 yds. ahead of Connecticut's Johnny Kelley, the 1957 winner. > No Robbery: the $90,800 Wood Memorial, at New York's Aqueduct race track. Taking command at the start...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). Part 2 of "Ethiopia: The Lion and the Cross," includes an interview with Emperor Haile Selassie...
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