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Last week, prodded by public protests from professional groups, East German officialdom took a new look at its educational policy. One of the policy's embarrassing results: East German students by the hundreds are slipping into West Berlin to seek the education denied them at home...
...from Alexandria University). Libya's only important export is dried esparto grass (used in making paper money); its per capita income is a wretched $35 a year. El Faki helpfully installed 500 Egyptian schoolteachers, sent out and paid by the Egyptian government, supplied Egyptians for every level of officialdom. Two members of the Supreme Court were Egyptians, so was the commander of the small army. Last week El Faki could boast that 1,800 Egyptians are working in Libya today and drawing paychecks from both countries...
Having given aid and comfort to allies, Dulles moved on to New Delhi and a more difficult session. Indian officialdom is notably unenchanted by Dulles. Unlike the welcome extended to Bulganin and Khrushchev, Dulles' airport welcome was quiet and formal. Dulles was driven to Nehru's home, where he found the Indian Prime Minister sitting reading a book on the porch. They began a friendly but frank conversation which, with a few breaks, lasted hours longer than had been scheduled. Nehru was not happy over SEATO's references to Kashmir; Dulles replied that...
...named Mira. When her brother Kitsamy brings an Oxford classmate, Richard Marlowe, home with him after graduation, Mira is so blushing-bold as to beg her mother to let her go on an unchaperoned swimming party with the handsome blond Englishman. Mama quickly scotches that outing, and British officialdom does the rest by ordering Richard off to his colonial duties...
Caucasian officialdom in Montgomery, Ala. (pop. 120,000) moved drastically last week to break the twelve-week-old Negro boycott of the Jim Crow city buses (TIME, Jan. 16 et seq.). Hastily dusting off an old (1921) antilabor state law forbidding restraint of trade, a grand jury voted indictment of 115 of the city's Negro leaders-including a score of Negro ministers. "In this state," the indictment read, "we are committed to segregation by custom and by law; we intend to maintain it." Arrested on George Washington's birthday, one of the Negro ministers responded: "The Negroes...