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...burnished red-brown of copper. The man was as vivid as the flag. He dressed his mounted honor guard in plumed helmets and blazing tunics bought secondhand from the Garde Républicaine in France, and seated them on broken-down nags sent up from Rhodesia. He was the solemn black defender of white capitalism in middle Africa, a rarity; yet he sneered at his Belgian sponsors as deceitful, and at the U.S. as "cowardly and decadent." He was urbane and charming, with a clever turn of phrase couched invariably in excellent French. But he was also superstitious enough...
...hailed a "salubrious" ferment in their classrooms. "This is the most exciting thing in my career," says English Teacher Harold R. Keables, veteran of 27 years at Denver's South High School. "There is a new appreciation of intellectual achievement. The kids are perhaps more serious, but not solemn or glum or dull. They are on fire with enthusiasm for learning...
Andy MacElhone admits that the tone of the place has changed: "The present generation is quieter. Americans in Paris are no longer homesick, and young people today are much more serious, even solemn. Perhaps it's the world situation. Today most of the American customers want to talk politics. Twenty years ago, it was the last thing they mentioned...
...University announces its investigation of "shelter" plans. If Harvard joins the civil defense movement, as an educational institution and civilizing force she ceases to have any relevance whatsoever. She helps to invite war. Therefore the most solemn protest in the University's history must take place. It must be undertaken with total seriousness. It must be totally coordinated. It must be immediate. It must be effective. W. F. Dancy...
Traditionally, a Party Congress in Russia blends parliamentary trappings with jungle techniques. Beneath the solemn propaganda ritual, beneath the automatic votes on prefabricated resolutions by hand-picked delegates, there is a half-hidden reality: rivalries of men and cliques, hardheaded appraisal of how well the party leadership is doing. This week, as the elite of world Communism eyed each other at the 22nd Party Congress, the public mood was unusually harmonious. From jampacked bleachers in Mayakovsky Square, a pride of poets droned odes in honor of the event. To welcome 4,500 Soviet delegates and "observers" from Communist parties...