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...from Palermo. In common with most of those on the church's Calendar of Saints, Dolci makes no sense to sensible men. He may well be a saint but if so he will be the first to have received the Lenin Peace Prize. James McNeish, an itinerant New Zealand journalist, has now undertaken Dolci's biography. It is a strange story, and possibly a more ambitious writer would not have succeeded so well. McNeish lets the facts speak their own contradictions and confesses himself baffled, after four years' active association with Dolci, as to the central essence...
Since then, Humphrey has become the Administration's most articulate and indefatigable exponent of U.S. Asian policy. From New Delhi to New Zealand to New York, before sexagenarian Senators and teen-age Thais, the pink-cheeked, peripatetic Vice President has rehearsed America's aims and achievements in Viet Nam with all the evangelical fervor he once brought to such causes as civil rights and dis armament...
Five countries--Denmark, Finland, Norway, West Germany, and New Zealand--have adopted the Swedish system, Britain is now considering adopting it. Even in Communist countries, there are "proconsuls" to handle personal grievances against the government...
...Zealand author, a teacher whose theories in practice (TIME, Sept. 6, 1963) have made her a legend in education, does not have a flashy literary genius. But she possesses talent enough to sustain genius of another order-the power to see into a child's mind and find there the river of time, in which, as they say in the clearing, only the "sillies" get drowned...
Richmond D. Considine, an ex-writer, "once a celebrity in the outside world where celebrity seems to matter," is crippled by arthritis and presides over his family in a remote forest clearing on the Whanganui River in the North Island of New Zealand. His wife, mother of all but one of the children, buys groceries by teaching school. Seasons pass; in the end the family is "rescued" from rural misery and taken downriver to a big house in town. Only Huia, a half-Maori girl sired by one of Considine's sons, remains behind to live as a Polynesian...