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...shooting started after a week of growing tension. The brutal beatings of Acting U.N. Katanga Chief George Ivan Smith and Special Adviser Brian Urquhart (TIME, Dec. 8) had already left the U.N. soldiers tense, angry, and spoiling for a fight. Many of Tshombe's troops, whipped up by the strident anti-U.N. propaganda of Radio Katanga, were drinking heavily and walking through town with guns at the ready. Something had to happen; it did, one afternoon at the main airport. When brawling Katangese soldiers molested airport workers, Indian soldiers arrested 32 of them in a flurry of gunfire...
...Dodd, U.N. and diplomatic guests, and the best of Elisabethville society. When a sedan with U.N. license plates drove up, the soldiers were sure some kind of plot was being hatched. Quickly they surrounded the car, shouting and gesticulating wildly at the two startled occupants. Australian-born George Ivan Smith, acting U.N. chief in Katanga, and Brian Urquhart, a Briton transferred to the Congo from U.N. Manhattan headquarters only a few days before...
...Ivan & Johnny...
...sincerest gratitude for your handling of my book What Ivan Knows That Johnny Doesn't in the Education section of the Nov. 17 issue. I feel that TIME has performed a very valuable service in calling nationwide attention to serious problems in the quality of American education by the comments not only on my book but upon the book Tomorrow's Illiterates as well. Altogether the piece was in the very best TIME tradition...
Comparable to Ivan's anatomy, my third grader's last science exam dealt with mollusks, amphibia and reptiles. Recently she wrote and illustrated a five-part paper-the first part, "The Creation," Ivan will never have...