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...Hope Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A comedy special on which Hope's guests include James Garner, Nancy Kwan, Danny Thomas, plus something over one long ton of All-America football flesh on the hoof...
Though the host and chairman was President William Tubman of Liberia, the man chiefly responsible for the conference was Félix Houphouet-Boigny (pronounced hoof-K>^ boyn-yee), 55, President of the flourishing Ivory Coast. A physician and plantation owner who served for 13 years in the French Assembly before his country became independent, Houphouet-Boigny is a sharp contrast to the rabble-rousers who make most of Africa's news, and he is slowly gaining respect as a leader who recognizes that shrill demagoguery is no solution to Africa's ills. Months ago he conceived...
Desperately, Gilbert sawed on the reins and slashed with his whip. But Plenty Papaya bolted back to the inside. Just before hitting the barrier, horse and rider parted company. The railbirds were watching the front runners, and no one saw what happened next. But an aluminum-shod hoof or the concrete base of a rail post shattered the jockey's skull. Roy Gilbert died on the way to a hospital...
...operating within codes of conduct mysterious to members of an industrial society, codes the like of which exist today probably only in the yet un-detribalized parts of Africa. But it is not merely the scale of life-where a man's wealth could be counted on the hoof or his quality measured in whether he carried a sword or a slingshot -but its quality that is baffling to the modern mind. Homeric life was not merely lived but ceremoniously acted out within a complex web of obligations linking gods and men in fatal and final patterns. There...
...monks, nuns and brothers have found that the best way to support themselves and their works is to become enterprising entrepreneurs. Though they have no desire for riches, the religious communities have installed mass-production factories, are turning out cheese, wine, bread, jellies, fruit cake, even beef on the hoof, selling them both nationally and locally. Usually of excellent quality, their products have received a sales boost from the rising interest in gourmet foods and, in the case of such items as hearty monastic bread, from the nation's growing health consciousness...