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...Sierra Leone were to suspend tomorrow the four-year-old state of emergency--declared the last time Karefa-Smart came home--and the government withdrew its warning to him to stay out of the country, he could probably be packed in time for an afternoon flight. His office at 641 Huntington Ave. is clearly a temporary measure, dominated not by a massive oaken desk, but by a few filing cabinets and bulletin boards. There is another map of Africa, perforated by colored push-pins, and an exhortation, carefully written in magic marker on lined yellow paper, to remember that...

Author: By Thomas H. Lee, | Title: Odyssey of a Homesick Healer | 5/15/1974 | See Source »

...many, it was a disconcerting experience. In McCandless, Pa., four-year-old Heather Campbell, awakened in the morning by her mother, asked: "Why are we going to bed so late?" At the Chicago Zoological Park in Brookfield, keepers had to wake up the wolves for their Sunday dinner of horsemeat and ground turkey. In Puerto Rico, which stayed on standard time, hundreds of tourists missed their scheduled planes to the mainland because the airlines had adopted the new time schedule, and they had to be flown home aboard special flights. At the Bank of America headquarters in San Francisco, bleary...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICANA: Coping with D.S.T. Lag | 1/21/1974 | See Source »

...Seattle, a four-year-old boy tries on a surgical mask for the role of doctor. Instead of playing nurse, a little girl assumes a doctor's mask herself. The boy glowers, and she asks, "Why not?" There is no reply. They begin to operate on a broken doll...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Child's Christmas in America | 12/24/1973 | See Source »

Ewart Guinier '33, chairman of the Afro-American Studies Department, and Martin L. Kilson, professor of Government, brought their four-year-old debate over black studies at Harvard to New York TV screens last Sunday. Their arguments were familiar ones and the only fireworks to come out of the half-hour discussion were charges that the Economics and English Departments discriminate against blacks...

Author: By Geoffrey D. Garin, | Title: Guinier And Kilson Square Off | 12/15/1973 | See Source »

...note sung and spent went for a noble cause: the Dance Theater of Harem. Finally the whole stageful of illustrious benefactors was upstaged by the long-limbed benefactees. D.TH danc ers leaped and floated through tribal rituals and Balanchine abstractions Said Actor Brock Peters, board chairman of the four-year-old dance company: "This community still has a cultural life. We've never been culturally deprived...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 26, 1973 | 11/26/1973 | See Source »

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