Word: incidentals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The other night we had another alert here, the second in two days. My husband had just returned from the alert and got out of the car, when an elderly German couple, walking down the street, stopped. The gentleman turned to my husband and said in guttural English, "Thank you...
The recent "postcard incident" serves as an excellent example. Two mistakes were made. First, the people were described in terms they could not bear, and secondly, it was erroneously assumed that postcards are read only by the intended receivers.
I feel that the incident regarding Miss Margery Michelmore's postcard has been blown up out of true proportion. I have heard many African and other foreign students, as well as visitors, giving talks to American church people and other groups regarding poverty in their countries.
During the next 48 hours the East Germans got reinforcements: more than 70 Soviet medium tanks, which parked unobtrusively in the side streets near the border crossing, as the U.S. made a fourth sortie into the Russian sector. For one night, U.S. and Soviet tanks squared off at the point...
While the Michelmore incident has not put the Peace Corps program in serious jeopardy in America or in Nigeria, is has indirectly increased several dangers. Any meaningful understanding between people of different cultures would seem to require that both display within the limitations of tact, a certain openness about their...