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...physician and plantation owner who served for 13 years in the French Assembly before his country became independent, Houphouet-Boigny is a sharp contrast to the rabble-rousers who make most of Africa's news, and he is slowly gaining respect as a leader who recognizes that shrill demagoguery is no solution to Africa's ills. Months ago he conceived the idea of a conference of all African leaders, with the modest aim of soberly exploring their common problems. As it turned out, the delegates who came to Monrovia represent a majority of independent Africans -some 95 million...
...glassmaking a year later, he went on to a stint as a commercial artist (he did ads for Peck & Peck and spot drawings for The New Yorker), a couple of Guggenheim fellowships, posts at various U.S. colleges and universities. His serious paintings and drawings were from the start shrill cries of pain. There are two kinds of artist, says Lebrun: some who follow the classical duty of putting order into an event, and "others who bring their vulnerable selves to an event, get hit, and then make some sort of statement about it. I am of the second type...
...consulted by Kennedy responded handsomely, promising him their fullest cooperation. But some others seemed less willing to remain silent in the face of setback. Snapped G.O.P. National Chairman Thruston B. Morton: "The time has come for our Government to sing bass in world affairs and not take refuge in shrill Byzantine ambiguities...
...exiles in their attempt to bring him down. Speaking with unusual intensity, Stevenson sought to accent the positive, reassuring Latin America in particular that the U.S. had no intention of reviving Yankee imperialism, but was acting in the interests of freedom after extreme, prolonged, unceasing provocation. He ridiculed the shrill contention of Raül Roa, Castro's liverish little ambassador, that the invaders were scum, hired mercenaries...
...recent months has risen to so strident a crescendo." Stevenson concentrated his appeal on the Latin American diplomats present: "We must not forget that Dr. Roa has described President Frondizi of Argentina in terms so revolting that I will not repeat them.* The official Cuban radio has poured shrill invectives on governments and leaders throughout the hemisphere, and the more democratic and progressive the government, the more the regime recognizes it as a mortal enemy and all the more savage becomes its abuse." Time after time Castro has "avowed...