Word: hinterlander
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Most encouraging portent so far is that in the Algerian bled (the hinterland), where 7,000,000 of the country's 9,000,000 Moslems live, the vast majority are cooperating peacefully with the French army and their own leaders to prepare for independence. At Rhoufi, only a few miles from the spot where the Algerian rebellion broke out seven years ago, a veteran French administrator declared last week: "It's almost too good to be true...
...stories this week illustrate how it goes. To tell how the Peace Corps is really doing, as opposed to what its press agents boast and its critics suspect, correspondents headed for the hinterland to see young people on the job. John Blashill sought out Peace Corpsmen upcountry in Chile and Colombia; Lee Griggs interrupted his watch on the uneasy Congo to fly to Tanganyika, and Herman Nickel from Johannesburg turned up with Peace Corpsmen in Nigeria. Still another set of correspondents here in the U.S. went off on a different trail-to see what Congressmen home for Christmas recess...
Crisis Victim. The military tribunal at Kiev sentenced Marvin Makinen to eight years' detention-just two years less than the punishment dished out to Francis Gary Powers for flying his U-2 thousands of miles into Soviet hinterland. In all probability, Makinen was a victim of the Berlin crisis. He came from West Berlin, just at the moment the Russians were charging that it was a center for imperialist plotters. Crowed Izvestia: "It becomes still clearer that the government of East Germany acted just in time in closing loopholes for all kinds of filth which tried to penetrate...
After wading barefoot through a monsoon-flooded rice paddy on his first major tour of the steamy Indian hinterland, the U.S.'s new high-pocketed, highbrowed Ambassador John Kenneth Galbraith and 'his wife Catherine cooled off at surf-raked Puri on the Bay of Bengal. Though they had followed the local practice of hiring a personal lifeguard against the treacherous undertow, the ambassador's lady still barely went near the water...
...notes, too, "the sickly attachment to Harvard of so many of the graduate students," unwilling to leave Widener to take a teaching job in the academic hinterland, but doomed by the fierce competition for each permanent place...