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Back to Work. When Bell departs at month's end-by which time the $3.4 billion foreign aid program for 1967 should be well on its way to enactment-he will have the satisfaction of leaving a hand-picked successor in his place: William S. Gaud Jr., 58, who has been AID'S deputy administrator since 1964. A Yale-educated lawyer, Gaud (pronounced Gowd) began his public service as assistant corporation counsel for New York City under Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, who thought Gaud was qualified to become mayor himself some day. An army colonel in charge of lend...
Despite his reputation as an able administrator, Gaud's qualities as an innovator are unknown, and his ability to get along with the President has yet to be tested. But his attitude toward aid meshes well with L.B.J.'s own insistence on "action, not promises" from recipient nations. "You've got to help other countries build up their independence until they can stand on their own feet," says Gaud. "Sure there are problems involved, but none is as bad as what would happen to them if they lost their independence...
...with no fuss and no dowries at all. Members of the Jain sect, India's fifth biggest religious group (biggest: Hindus), the couples arrived quietly at a Jain temple. Only ostentation: the four brides' traditionally exquisite silk saris, and the bridegrooms' jeweled turbans. Stripped of party gaud, the go-minute wedding ceremony took on added religious significance, from the sound of the Sanskrit scripture chanted by four pandits to the odor of marigold garlands and the glow of incense-fed fires. Said one happy new father-in-law: "Under normal procedure, this marriage would have cost about...
...plight of a distressed lady brings out -sometimes -the gallant in men, and rarely better than in Ghana. When the pet ostrich of chic Madame Claude de Guirin-gaud, wife of France's ambassador, disappeared, who should come hurrying to the rescue? None other than Prime Minister Kwame Nkrumah himself. Hearing a missing-bird bulletin over the state radio station, Nkrumah forthwith phoned the chief of police in Accra to get his head out of the sand. Dragnet-quick result: the chief found his quarry in his own garden, triumphantly reported to the P.M., who triumphantly eased Madame...
...entered with great pomp than he scoots out the back door, dallies 29 days with his 100 wives (in better days he had twice as many), slips back in, and on the 30th day publicly emerges, greatly refreshed from his meditations. He is frequently seen dressed in fantastic gaud, seated in a brilliant howdah atop a huge elephant, with his sceptre in one hand, and a Rolleiflex camera in the other...