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Latin America is in the midst of a "population explosion." Its people are multiplying 2½ times as fast as the populations in the rest of the world. Right now, the population of Latin America and the Caribbean islands, as tabulated by Washington's Population Reference Bureau (a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization), is some 173 million-just about the same as the U.S. and Canada together. But if present growth rates should continue until the year 2000, Latin America and the West Indies would top the U.S. plus Canada by 550 million to 250 million. Fastest-growing Latin country: Costa...
...trying for ten years to make ends meet. In the U.S., the monthly Partisan Review has been forced to cut down to six issues a year, is still constantly casting about for angels. Since they traditionally operate in the red, only the little magazines backed by universities, well-heeled nonprofit organizations or foundations have any security. This week in London, 10,000 copies of a brand-new little magazine rolled off the presses, and it not only has the backing of an organization but is also a highbrow magazine whose roots are transatlantic. The magazine: Encounter, an 80-page international...
...council, which began shortly after World War I (and publishes the quarterly review Foreign Affairs), is a nonprofit institution devoted to research and study of the international aspects of American political and economic problems. The purpose of the fellowship is to "help correspondents to increase their competence to report and interpret events abroad ... to give men who have been preoccupied with meeting deadlines an opportunity to broaden their perspective by means of a coordinated program of reading, study and informal discussion." Richardson will study at Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and commute to New York...
...Trade. The credit for opening people's eyes to Canada's Eskimo artists goes to a Quebec artist named Jim Houston, 32, who first went to the Arctic in 1948. Fascinated by the exquisite little figures he saw, Houston brought back a few examples, persuaded the nonprofit Canadian Handicrafts Guild to put Eskimo carvings on sale. They sold like hotcakes, and each year Houston traveled north for more supplies. Later, the guild put out booklets filled with helpful advice to the Eskimo artists. Sample: "Man throwing harpoon, or spearing through ice ... If they are carefully carved and polished...
...hold the patents on staff members' discoveries in medicine and public health, Harvard University set up a special nonprofit corporation called Protein Foundation Inc., with Chester I. Barnard, onetime telephone tycoon (New Jersey Bell) and later head of the Rockefeller Foundation, as chairman. Much of its work will involve patents taken out by Biochemist Edwin J. Cohn, the world's top authority on blood fractions, relating to gamma globulin and methods of collecting and preserving blood substances...