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Sunk in disorder and poverty, many of the newly independent nations of black Africa not long ago seemed ripe ground for Communism. None seemed riper than Guinea, where President Sékou Touré preached a dogmatic Marxist philosophy and a virulent hatred of the West. But in Africa, a local saying holds, "There is no past or future, only the present," and Guinea is a perfect case in point. After years of cozying up to Moscow, Touré has turned against the Reds, and their high hopes of gaining an African foothold in Guinea have all but evaporated...
Rarely have a nation's newspapers been riper for infiltration. The Japanese press, huge (103 dailies with 35 million circulation) and savagely competitive, is a vacuum sustaining no cause but a steady antagonism to all authority. It is largely owned by business-minded publishers so remote from their editorial floors that the congress flourished almost by default...
...REALLY SINCERE GUY (McKay; $4), by Robert Van Riper, public-relations director of N. W. Ayer & Son's Philadelphia office, poses a puzzler: Can a publicity man who believes in low tariffs find happiness with a client who wants him to tout high tariffs? Van Riper's idealogue finds happiness for a while with a yummy girl reporter from a newsmagazine, finally goes back to his wife and the dream of all P.R. men: a nice little agency of his own, with clients who tariff low, pay high...
...Repetto will probably pitch this afternoon as the Crimson nine sets out to settle a score against the Dartmouth Indians. Last year Dartmouth knocked the Crimson out of the E.I.B.L. race, 7 to 6, at Hanover, as Repetto lost to Dick Van Riper...
Today the invading woodsmen bring an undefeated record to Soldiers Field, as their 2-0 mark is the only pure slate besides Yale's. Repetto may oppose Van Riper again, but the more probable Green choice is righthander Ron Judson, whose fine curve ball is sometimes offset by a tendency to wildness...