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Dates: during 1960-1969
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INSIDE SOUTH AMERICA, by John Gunther. A political travelogue of the South American continent, conducted by a tour guide who knows all the sights but moves too briskly to explain them thoroughly...
...also writes a book-length report on each tour, which we send to business executives, government officials, educators, labor leaders. This week we are distributing Scott's latest study, done after visits to Asia, South America and Europe. Its title: "Hunger-Must We Starve?" Scott's answer: Not necessarily, provided that man makes the most of modern methods of population control and improves food production. His next subject: Viet...
...cruelest time for restless Senators: the President has all the lines, while Congress listens and in visibly adjusts. For Robert Kennedy, this season has been especially bleak because of the unfavorable and boring publicity surrounding the Manchester book controversy. All in all, an excellent moment for a selective tour of Western European capitals-to pick up some information, be cooed at by statesmen, oohed at by everyman, and make a few headlines at home having nothing to do with that book. Which is exactly what happened...
Nkrumah has avoided the cage. He is ensconced in a seaside villa in the Guinean capital of Conakry, 980 miles from Accra, where he studies French, carries on a voluminous correspondence with his remaining admirers and hatches schemes for a triumphal return. Though Sékou Touré, Guinea's leader, has distinctly cooled on his initial offer to share power and prestige with Nkrumah, he continues to give Nkrumah sanctuary. Nkrumah's presence is thus still felt in Ghana, especially by the military men of the National Liberation Council who now run the country...
...Alden's goal to "shape a university that's in touch with the real world." He has brought an impressive list of guest speakers to the campus, ranging from President Johnson, who spoke there on a war-on-poverty tour in May 1964, to the late Protestant theologian Paul Tillich. The university's select "Ohio Fellows," 30 members of each class chosen for their potential as future public leaders, have been able to quiz such officials as Secretary of State Dean Rusk and Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas. Alden has also defended the right...