Word: sigal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flight from Geneva. On board were four passengers, including two whom Tshombe already knew. One was a Frenchman named Francis Bodenan, whom he had become acquainted with a few weeks earlier, the other a Belgian named Marcel Hambursin. The remaining passengers were a convicted Belgian swindler, Charles Sigal, and his wife Yvonne. Using the name of a fictitious firm for a cover, the four had chartered the plane from a London air-taxi company. They were real estate developers, they explained, and wanted to examine some sites in the Mediterranean on which to build new hotels...
...regard to [Efram J.] Sigal's article ("New Peace Corps Volunteers has Big Plans; Two Years Later He is Watching the Clock," March 6). The Peace Corps stands on its own merits. It may succeed, and it may fail. But if it fails, it won't be because of the people who work within the framework of its ideas...
...could agree with everything Sigal stated in his article, and I don't think you would find too many volunteers who wouldn't agree with him. But most of us do not take the detached, superior attitude that he takes. We are human beings with all the frailties and weaknesses of such, working with other human beings with the same qualities. But what we exchange on a personal level with each other as people is what makes this job worthwhile. We have got to be able to listen as well as speak. I don't think Sigal did much listening...
...Efrem J. Sigal '64, a former associate managing editor of the CRIMSON, spent his two years in the Peace Corps teaching English in the Ivory Coast. He is now at the Harvard Business School. This article originally appeared in the Reporter Magazine, and excerpts are reprinted by permission.--Ed. note...