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DONALD G. BOULDIN Captain, U.S.A. Fort Polk...
...TIME'S Essay section rounded out its second year, it was among the winners of the 19th annual George Polk Memorial Awards. The honors are granted by Long Island University in memory of the CBS correspondent who was assassinated in Salonica in 1948 while en route, so he thought, to an interview with the Communist rebel leader Markos Vafiades. TIME Essay won the award, said the citation, for its "factually tight, balanced and absorbing reports to help make meaningful the most baffling complexities...
...days," he said, after bounding down the ramp of Air Force One and bussing Lady Bird, "but I couldn't last out the third one." To mark Andrew Jackson's 200th birthday, the Johnsons breakfasted at the Hermitage, later visited the home of James Polk, a President whose name often gets lost in the jumble between Jackson and Lincoln but who turned the U.S. into a conti nent-spanning nation by acquiring territory now comprising Arizona, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah, California and parts of Colorado and Wyoming...
Married. Janet Jennings Auchincloss, 21, half-sister of Jacqueline Kennedy; and Lewis Polk Rutherfurd, 21, Princeton '66; in Newport, R.I., in an event-of-the-season ceremony in which John F. Kennedy Jr. was a page, Caroline a flower girl, and Jackie among the almost 900 guests...
...articles then focus on problem situations within Africa. Hugh Polk '66 and Clive Kileff '66 discuss the attitudes of White Rhodesians toward both their country and majority rule. Fred Akuffo '66 attempts to analyze Ghana's progress under Nkrumah, and to outline the plans of the new government. A "miscellaneous" article by Stephen Cobb calls for a re-definition of the role of the American government in issuing passports, a controversy arising from the travels of Staughton Lynd. The three book reviews are intriguing, but not directly related to the African theme of the Review...