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...Lack of Ferment." The association's investigators gave Curly Byrd at least one bit of unrestrained praise. In his 18 years he had seen his enrollments jump from 3,376 to 25,000, his budget grow from $2,600,000 to $22 million, such a unit as the College of Military Science become first-rate. But in building up the campus, he had apparently neglected a few essentials. His control had been so tight that the university had become "unquestionably the lengthened shadow of President Byrd." As a result, said the association, there was a tendency on the part...
...Odets falls into a common trap: he cannot convey the peevish boredom of his floating prison without turning boresome himself. But what stems in part from lack of movement stems from lack of meaning also. Writing his play on an intellectual milk diet. Odets tries vainly for the rich ferment of wine...
...Latin America, where U.S. private investments exceed $4.7 billion (40% of all U.S. venture capital abroad), the biggest problem is "creeping expropriation," i.e., harassment of U.S.-controlled enterprises by discriminatory taxes and labor requirements. Major offender: Argentina, Brazil's liberal treatment of capital is off-set by social ferment and inflationary hazards, and Venezuela has limited attractions outside of oil and mineral resources. "One of the most favorable areas" for U.S. investment, according to OIT, is Mexico...
...FERMENT IN THE FAR EAST...
Land of Surprise. Black Africa's awakening is spotty and inconclusive-more a blind, biological ferment than a self-conscious surge of nationalism. Africa is still a land of weirdness and surprise: of seven-foot giants like the Watussi, the world's champion high jumpers; dwarf antelopes no bigger than a terrier, and goliath beetles the size of a dove; Pygmy hunters with humplike buttocks, and the society of Leopardmen, whose ferocious devotees riutilate their victims with tiny knives that leave marks like a leopard's claws. Across Africa's unplowed ranges roam herds...