Word: postcarder
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...inception, the U.S. Peace Corps, for all its laudable aims, was bound to run into trouble sooner or later. As it turned out, that trouble came sooner: last week, just 20 days after the first Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Ibadan. Nigeria, a raucous ruckus was raised by a postcard written by a girl from Foxboro, Mass...
...open sewers in the upland jungles of Nigeria. While still brushing up on her Nigerian history at a University College of Ibadan indoctrination course, she wrote to a friend, Robert V. Storer at Cambridge, and crammed 150 vivid words onto a 5½-inch by 3½-inch postcard, giving her impressions of Ibadan life...
Margery Michelmore, whose intercepted postcard touched off a student demonstration in the country a few days ago, was reported en route to Bermuda yesterday...
...glimpse of what the mapped terrain really looks like. For Spain, for instance, instead of the customary travel-poster view of a bullfight, there is only one huge photo, spread across two pages-a memorable view of miles of rolling red earth planted with olive trees. Half a dozen postcard-size shots could have been crammed into the space, producing nothing more than a sheaf of postcards...
Dean Monro, the chairman of the Peace Corps advisory committee here, would only reaffirm his confidence in the 23-year-old girl whose intercepted postcard touched off the demonstrations. He described her last night as "fine and dedicated...