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...House, Ike wondered aloud: "What has happened to our concept of beauty and decency and morality?" Books and movies are laced with "vulgarity, sensuality, indeed downright filth." People dance "the twist instead of the minuet." Modern paintings look as if they have been "run over by a broken-down tin lizzie loaded with paint.'' He did not think the U.S. would go for it for long. "I per sonally believe," said Ike, "that we are about to see, and are seeing, a renaissance in American pride in America, an American pride in the characteristics that have made America...
...helper. "Here I have a radio," says Paredes. A Peruvian mountain couple, German and Aurelia Ortega, are stuck in El Monton (The Pile), a Lima slum of 5,000 people beside a garbage dump. With 14 relatives, they huddle in a dirt-floored hut-its walls made of flattened tin cans, scrap wood and cardboard cartons. German, 30, earns 25 soles (93?) a day in a pottery plant; the others ragpick or beg for scraps at the back doors of restaurants. Once each day Aurelia brews a thin stew from the choicest tidbits. Says Aurelia, "We are not starving here...
Sought Fissures. A Soviet trade mission concluded a new economic agreement for 1962 with Peking last week. China will exchange tin, mercury, wool, silk fabrics, readymade clothes and handicrafts for Russian oil products, chemicals, trucks, scientific instruments and machinery parts. Significantly, China undertakes to export no food, and the Russians apparently were supplying little or no equipment related to heavy industry...
Johns Hopkins' drive was largely powered by President Milton Eisenhower, who says, "I won't rattle a tin cup, but I'll tell the story." In five years, he has changed his school's financial complexion from red to black and doubled the budget to $61 million. The new take of $18 million, most of it earmarked for buildings, made Johns Hopkins eligible for a second heat. All the university has to do is raise another $12 million and Ford will give it another $6,000,000. With an alumni body that is notably longer...
...French positions. Ben Bella, though still pale and out of condition from his long imprisonment, gamely climbed up and down hills. Colonel Boumedienne. F.L.N. chief of staff, invited reporters to inspect the cave headquarters, which were simply furnished with cots and rough tables, lit by candles stuck in tin cans. One F.L.N. officer proudly exhibited his silver belt buckle with its legend in Spanish: "Fidel Castro for the F.L.N." Grinned Colonel Boumedienne: "That won't make the Americans happy." Contagious Guns. While the tribesmen roasted an entire sheep on a spit for lunch, Algerian horsemen charged back and forth...