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...dozen newsmen regularly covering the Congo, none has given his competitors more trouble than affable Wilfred Lazarus, 35, correspondent for the Press Trust of India. In a land where rumors flock like jungle fowl, communications are primitive and authorities both unreliable and distressingly perishable, Willie Lazarus regularly managed to uncover stories so breathtaking as to bring reporters for British and American wire services reproachful "callbacks" from their home offices...
...veteran of 15 years with P.T.I., Lazarus scored his first big Congo scoop when he reported that Congolese troops were threatening to attack the residence of India's Rajeshwar Dayal, who is U.N. Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold's personal representative in the Congo. Spotting the story in the august Times of India-one of 200 Indian dailies that sub scribe to P.T.I.-Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru rose in India's Parliament to protest the hostile attitude of the Congolese government toward his countryman. But other Congo hands could find no evidence for Lazarus' sensational story...
Last week the unabashed Lazarus turned up another bit of sensational news: from U.N. sources, he reported, he had learned that the troops guarding deposed Congolese Premier Patrice Lumumba not only roughed Lumumba up (see FOREIGN NEWS) but had also chewed off one of his fingers. With a nice feeling for local color, Lazarus added that oldtime Congo cannibals frequently began their meal with the victim's fingers, which they regarded as canapes...
...Strong One. Along the way, Novelist Kazantzakis crams his book with gamy characters, gutty incidents and casual anachronisms. His description of freshly resurrected Lazarus, dazed and stinking of death, plucking off the worms, squeezes a new measure of realism out of the miracle. And his disciples are minor masterpieces of winy characterization. They are no heroes; Peter's nickname, for instance, is "Windmill," for his susceptibility to every change in the breeze of opinion. Matthew is "short, stout, jaundiced; his hands yellow and soft, his fingers inky, nails black; he had long hairy ears and a high voice like...
Citing recent school improvements in a 90-page report entitled "Paying for Better Public Schools," C.E.D. suggests that rising prosperity alone will produce enough new money to hold the gains. But is this enough? Far from it, says Ralph Lazarus, head of C.E.D.'s educational subcommittee and president of Federated Department Stores Inc. "We cannot pay for better schools just by continuing our present effort. We should do more than this minimum-and we can afford...