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...high-strung, he could not settle down to the idea of college after boarding school, and the thought of going to work in his wealthy father's steel-fabricating plant in Worcester, Mass, appalled him. He decided that a year working with Missionary Albert Schweitzer at Lambarene in Gabon on Africa's West Coast might help him sort things out. There the work was backbreaking, but he loved the life; month after month he helped clear jungle thickets and unloaded the heavy supplies that arrived by boat. "Hi ho. ho hum, here I am in the middle...
Jeeps & Boxcars. But when he bade farewell to Dr. Schweitzer last June, Mark still could not go home. The 20-year-old youth had become interested in the World Federalists and decided he wanted to see more of the young nations of Africa. He headed south toward the Congo, planning to cross the continent to Kenya and Ethiopia, then make his way to Israel before returning to the U.S. He made his own way by hitching rides on passing trucks or jeeps, even in boxcars on the occasional trains that passed; often he slept in the mud huts of natives...
...Castro is an exceptionally talented demagogue in his own right. Passages on the ills of colonialism and the consequences of underdevelopment struck home with many Latin American delegates, but Castro's 100% line-up with the Reds hit home even harder. Said Chile's delegation chief, Daniel Schweitzer: "Castro exposed himself in all ways." Among the Latin Americans, only the delegation from Mexico applauded him, with occasional support from Venezuela and Bolivia. But with Khrushchev cuing the applause, pudgy palms pounding high over his head as the signal, Castro got enough cheers even for his mammoth ego. Ghana...
...because he could not make up his mind which game to play-"Back-Jack" or "Favorite Son." After it was too late to matter, an aide reported facetiously that Pat had just conducted another of his famous sidewalk polls. "He wants to find out whether we should support Albert Schweitzer or Fidel Castro for the vice-presidency." Robert Meyner, the handsome New Jersey Governor who is barred by law from a third term, insisted on running as a favorite son against the manifold pleas and pressures of the state's pro-Kennedy Democratic bosses. He thus won a niche...
...Kilgallen is sitting on the horns of a moral dilemma and feeling no pain." The dilemma: the conflict between the lady of manners and the brittle gossip. Continued the Post: "She is secure enough to have exclaimed once: 'I'm getting a little fed up with Albert Schweitzer,' a natural caption that ever since has been in search of a cartoon." Dorothy,' wrote the Post's five-member reporting team, is so busy being a celebrity that she rarely sees her husband, Broadway Producer Dick Kollmar: "[Dick] and Dorothy go their separate ways...