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...Supreme Court-which would abolish Ghana's technically independent judiciary. The second, and more important-copied almost verbatim from the Soviet constitution-would make Nkrumah's Convention People's Party the country's only legal political body and, like Russia's Communist Party, "the vanguard of the working people in their struggle to build a Socialist society...
International Army. The German engineers work for Hochtief, a hustling Essen-headquartered construction firm that is West Germany's largest. They are only the vanguard of what will be an international army of engineers drawn from Italian, Swedish, French and Egyptian construction companies. The job, whose feasibility was first worked out by the Swedes, will take seven years and cost $25 million; the expense has been largely met by contributions from the U.S., Kuwait and UNESCO. The overall boss of the international effort is 89-year-old Hochtief, whose name literally means "above below"-a reference to the firm...
From this firmament of talent, TIME picked ten artists of brightening magnitude to show in color (see following pages). Some are well positioned: Sidney Goodman, 27, the boy Hieronymus Bosch of modern horror; Grace Hartigan, 41, who models her environment in color; John Hultberg, 41, vanguard California figurativist; Paul Jenkins, 40, maker of iridescent mental landscapes; Theodores Stamos, 41, abstract expressionist. And there are others who seek their own place in the zodiac...
...NORTH GATE by Joyce Carol Oates. 253 pages. Vanguard...
...vanguard are 57 small manufacturing companies drawn to the Virgins since 1957 by a favorable tariff concession: merchandise moves into the U.S. duty-free if 50% of the cost of processing it was spent in the islands. Seven watch companies-including subsidiaries of Hamilton and Benrus-assemble movements from Japanese, French, Moroccan and even Russian parts that are imported at the Virgins' low 6% tariff rate. Other companies process shoelaces, textiles, pens and medical thermometers. Old-line sugar planters complain that they can no longer get cane cutters at 600 an hour while the new factories...