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...Ford II by inadvertently leaking to the press that the Ford Motor Co. might put some of its Ford stock on the market. Finally, at President Eisenhower's first inauguration, Ford told Hoffman: "This is the end, Paul." A month later the trustees also rose against Hoffman, elected Rowan Gaither president and ordered him to move Itching Palms to Madison Avenue. Hoffman became board chairman of his brain child, the Fund for the Republic. As for Hutchins, no one knew quite what to do. "I am an associate director," said he as he cooled his heels in Pasadena...
...vast network of community projects, conferences, training centers and publications-ranging from a model community center in Delhi in memory of Gandhi to helping spread the vidyapeeths (rural universities) in Mysore and other states. In Burma the foundation's work is so highly regarded that when Rowan Gaither visited the country, Statesman U Nu took the unusual step of declaring him a guest of the state. Commented one Indonesian official: "The foundation does not interfere in our domestic politics. It's helping us strictly on humanitarian grounds...
After more than a century of isolation from the U.S. mainstream, as Rowan points out, the Midwest's 75,000 Indians (who got U.S. citizenship only 33 years ago) have been encouraged by the Federal Government in recent years to quit the "rural slums" of the reservations. Says Rowan: "Most of the younger generation sees that the arrow is broken, the tribe is dead." But, poorly educated, lacking technical skills and elementary economic judgment, they enter the white man's world with "handicaps that burden no other group of Americans...
Good & Dead. "When local whites criticize the South for racial segregation," asks Rowan, "is it a case of the pot calling the kettle black?" Rowan says he found "almost no citizen who will say directly that he considers the Indian racially inferior, or inherently a loafer or a drunkard." Yet the director of an Indian hospital at White Earth, Minn. told him: "The feeling in some communities is that the only good Indians are dead Indians." In many areas Indians are denied admission to hospitals, refused police protection, turned down when they apply for social-welfare...
...week series had hardly begun in the Tribune last week when Rowan was forced to "unplug my phone to get any sleep." At least 85% of the calls and letters to the paper commended the series, but government officials at all levels greeted the opening articles with silence. Pressed for comment, Minneapolis' Mayor Eric Hoyer shrugged: "Who are we to tell the Indian he should go to work? I hope Mr. Rowan carries the series through to an investigation of the same problem in all metropolitan areas of the country...