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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Encouraging Eccentricity. Top jobs at the Star are filled by Noyeses and Kauffmanns, but on the reporter level there are plenty of promising newcomers. Haynes Johnson has a knack for conveying the nuances of national mood; after a swing around the U.S. last November, when polls showed presidential popularity low and dropping, he concluded that there was unrest and a yearning for strong leadership but also an undercurrent of sympathy for the President. Smith Hempstone covered the Middle East war with lyrical intensity, highlighting particularly the plight of the Arab victims. Political Writer Paul Hope showed a keen...
Ubiquitous is the word for TV, for with its vast reach, it tends to level the differences between the city and country child; in the ghettos, it can serve as a kind of head-start program, exposing new worlds that a deprived child would otherwise never see. The drawback, of course, is that much of TV programming has little to do with the real world. Adults are often depicted as bickering, tension-ridden morons. If, for instance, Video Boy had Lucy for a mother and Fred Flintstone for a father, who could blame him if he ran off to join...
...message was how to find total peace and put an end to all world suffering. The technique is to seek the inner being, the level of consciousness below thought, through transcendental meditation...
...Columbus, Ohio, and one of the famed Lazarus family that controls giant Federated Department Stores. Lazarus reminded fellow merchants that one-third of all U.S. unemployed are in the 20 largest metropolitan areas where the biggest U.S. department stores also happen to be based. "They are not at the level of everybody else," he said of this hard core. "That is why, in many cases, they are unemployed. So we have got to say we will hire them; that we will literally create jobs...
Attending secondary school or a university becomes an intensely political experience, as the government props up student unions and factions to infuse a little nationalism into its future leaders. Much of this concern filters down to the Adzope level, especially during the summer when lycee or university students come home for vacation. Last July, President Felix Houphouet-Boigny spent over a week crisscrossing the country, holding local meetings with students to try to iron out any grievances which they might have...