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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ghana's financial plight is the result of Nkrumah's delusions of grandeur. Determined to make Ghana black Africa's most potent nation, Nkrumah set out on a national glorification binge. In a disastrous attempt to establish Ghana Airways as a great international airline, Nkrumah ordered British Viscounts, Russian Ilyushins, U.S. Boeing jets. But Ghana had neither the money to pay for the planes nor the business to warrant them; the Boeing order has been canceled, and Nkrumah is trying to get Russia to take back some of the Ilyushins. Reason: in the last three months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: Dirt Under the Welcome Mat | 11/10/1961 | See Source »

James Laue 3G makes a different kind of mistake. Instead of ignoring an issue, he fabricates one. Thus, in an otherwise informative article on the Black Muslim movement, he blames the "mass media" for white indifference to the plight of the American Negro. As the editors of Comment suggest, it is just "glib" to scream at the press for the ills of society...

Author: By Josiah LEE Auspitz, | Title: Comment | 10/30/1961 | See Source »

Finally getting word of the Bowmans' plight, San Francisco's Mayor George Christopher last March sent a long letter to Police Chief Thomas Cahill demanding action. Cahill assigned Inspector Nathaniel Pedrini to the case-and things began to change. Pedrini attached a tape recorder to the telephone to gather evidence, persuaded the telephone company to tap the line until midnight and carefully check every call. When the police finally traced the culprits, the tap led to 22-year-old Steven Van Otten and 19-year-old Barry Van Otten, the sons of a policeman in suburban Daly City...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: The City with the Golden Gate | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...exceptional film. Made in the 1930's, it is limited in cinematographic technique, but its brilliant characterizations and universal theme of man's helplessness in a hostile universe give it a quality of genius. Professor von Helping, the German occult scholar and vampire expert, embodies the intellectual's plight of being disregarded by society. Otto Krueger turns in an admirable performance as the sensitive young psychiatrist who knows he is unable to understand or mediate the deeper workings of the mind. And above all is the towering tragic figure of Countess Elesca-Dracula's daughter-swept along like...

Author: By Mary Shelley, | Title: Dracula's Daughter | 10/27/1961 | See Source »

...aggressors" and should be "repelled with whatever means will effectively deter their assault." Last week Washington's Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun answered McHugh. "I do not see how any Christian conscience can condone a policy which puts supreme emphasis on saving your own skin without regard for the plight of your neighbor," he said. "Justice, mercy and brotherly love do not cease to operate, even in the final apocalypse." Most Christians would probably recall the Biblical parallel of the wise and foolish virgins-and draw their own inference...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Civil Defense: The Sheltered Life | 10/20/1961 | See Source »

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