Word: haitianize
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...from through with Haiti, however. Last week it dispatched a 12-man survey mission to Port-au-Prince. Assignment: to advise the Haitian government on all the island's problems, including illiteracy...
Last week, there were fewer ill-clad and unshod in Port-au-Prince, the capital. Peasants walked barefoot down the mountains with shoes in their hands, grumblingly put them on at the city gates. Said one young Haitian: "What an idea, dressing up every day as if it were a holiday! My shoes have been in good condition for five years, but if I have to put them on all the time, I'll wear them...
...Haitian Delegate Antonio Vieux spoke heatedly against partition; two days later he announced shamefacedly that his government had ordered him to switch to yes. Filipino Delegate General Carlos Romulo, on Wednesday, orated against partition and sailed away on the Queen Mary. Saturday a new Filipino delegate flew in from Washington, voted yes. Liberia, which voted no in committee, said yes in the final roll call. In the final days Arab and Jewish hopes alternately soared and plummeted...
...three-woman staff is suitably international : one is American; one is Hungarian by birth and Haitian by marriage; one is Swiss by birth, U.S. by citizenship, and married to an expatriate Russian. Mrs. Lea Cowles, the plump, attractive widow who directs the nursery school, was borrowed from the University of Alabama department of child development. Says she: "When some of the parents heard I was at Alabama, they thought I would turn out to be a race bigot...
...inhabitants, three out of four can neither read nor write. They speak a Creole dialect of French, live in thatched huts with dirt floors, suffer from worms, decaying teeth, malaria and tuberculosis. A UNESCO expert, armed with films, books, posters and phonograph records, will work with a Haitian Government team to teach the fundamentals of hygiene, flood control, modern agriculture, the three Rs. UNESCO will pass on what it learns to teams in Asia, Africa, South America...