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...Poles overcome their insistence that the best thing the Germans could do (short of drying up) is recognize East Germany, there is no reason why a combined U.S. and German cultural exchange program wouldn't help renew Poland's ties with the West East Europe is in intellectual ferment, and Kennedy could make better use of America's Polish currency in such an exchange than he could trying to jump on Gomulka's Five-Year Plan bandwagon...
...cartoon appeared in The New Yorker several years ago depicting the grand council of a cannibal tribe seated around a fire. The chief was explaining: "We send out word that we're in a state of ferment. The Russians send technicians. Then the Americans send technicians. . . . When they're all here, we eat them...
...Ferment at Home. Uninterested in politics, Abubakar stuck to his books, never met such hot-eyed young nationalists as Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta, who were also in London then. When the BBC sought a Nigerian to read Nigeria's new 1946 constitution on its overseas service, Abubakar willingly took the job but had, he later confessed, not the slightest idea what the document he had read was all about...
Known at Yale as "O.K.," Utah-born Sociologist Moore, 40, launched his experiment as a result of recent ferment among behavioral scientists, who no longer see man and beast as motivated mainly by the "primary" drives of hunger, thirst and sex. Another major motivation, the scientists now argue, is a "competence" drive-the appetite to master complex relationships that is the apparent basis of problem solving. Moore's special interest is the problem in which the seeker has . no rules or fixed goals to guide him. Most notable example: the mystery of how children learn to speak their...
Although Salvadoran supporters of Cuba's Fidel Castro were feeding the ferment, Lemus did not have to look beyond his borders for its cause. El Salvador, Latin America's tiniest country, has its second densest population (305 per sq. mi.). The average agricultural wage is 60? a day, and 20,000 are unemployed in the capital alone. As much as any other country in the hemisphere, El Salvador is in need of the social reforms proposed by the U.S. to the inter-American development conference in Bogota a fortnight...