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French culture and influence are probably as strong in the 15 former French territories running southward from the Sahara* as anywhere outside of France. French is the official language of those countries, bringing order out of a confusion of tribal tongues...
Died. Joseph Hudnut, 81, articulate architect and longtime (1935-53) dean of Harvard's Graduate School of Design; of pneumonia; in Norwood, Mass. An uninhibited critic, Hudnut dismissed the Jefferson Memorial as "an egg on a pantry shelf in the midst of a geometric Sahara." His passion was for the functional line of modern architecture, a style he popularized by bringing to the U.S. such Bauhaus architects as Marcel Breuer and Walter Gropius, whom he installed as chairman of his school's architectural department...
...freeze-dried smallpox vaccine and keep diluent solutions refrigerated. Inoculating people who live in towns and villages is relatively easy. Far tougher is trapping the nomads who wander across the map. To intercept them, the epidemiologists plot their seasonal visits to water holes and waylay them there. Timbuktu, the Sahara's ancient crossroads for commerce, is now a prime hunting ground for vaccinators...
...then complains, "Shucks, I pulled it," either has to be kidding-or Jack Nicklaus. Other people play golf; Nicklaus plays a different game. Last week, shooting what he called "the best competitive round" of that game he has ever played, Jack won the Sahara Invitational and boosted his season's earnings to an all-time record...
AFRICA (ABC, 7-11 p.m.). A four-hour special touching all the bases-sights (the Nile, Kilimanjaro, the Sahara, Sphinx, Congo, jungle), wildlife, entertainment, Miriam Makeba, a Kinshasa jazz band, political leaders (including Haile Selassie, Jomo Kenyatta), history, sports, health, education, tribal life, race relations and so on. Gregory Peck is the narrator...