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...Project Tanganyika has raised almost half the $45,000 needed to send five 'Cliffies and 15 Harvard students to teach in Africa this summer. The 1963 budget is $10,000 more than last year...
...Phillips Brooks House sponsors the three-year-old Project, which sends Harvard undergraduates to teach in Tanganyika from three to 15 months. This year nine students will remain for the full 15 months...
Alison B. Liebhafsky '63, director of the Project, said that she was confident that the budget would be met. At present Project Tanganyika has $2500 in cash and pledges for $11,000 to $16,000 more, several times more than at this time last year...
Zanzibar, off Tanganyika's coast, offered a welcome respite to svelte Marie Claire Sandys, 34, who dressed down for carefree swimming parties while her statesman husband Duncan tried to settle local political disputes. The Moslem-oriented Indian Ocean isle seemed pleased with both guests, though Sandys objected strenuously when a photographer snapped his lady in definite un-purdah...
...From Tanganyika to Trinidad and from towering city branches to tiny one-room shacks in the bush, the 1,340 overseas offices of Britain's biggest bank carry the same inscription: "Barclays Bank D.C.O." Wags insist that the initials stand for "debtors, creditors and overdrafts." but in fact they stand for nothing. In 1954. as the British empire retrenched, Barclays prudently struck out "Dominion, Colonial and Overseas" from its longtime overseas title and left the meaningless initials. Today it is involved in a profitable partnership with onetime colonials that has raised its assets to $2.5 billion, a significant portion...