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...Henry Fellowship (awarded to four U.S. college graduates a year), then graduated from Yale Law School ('41), also cum laude. He saw World War II sea duty as a lieutenant aboard Navy oilers, "floating around on a sea of 100 octane gas, bored to death 99 percent of the time and scared to death one percent...
...almost every field--agriculture, commerce, administration, and health. Education must meet this need, but funds to finance it can seldom come from the students or their parents, in a land where per capita income hovers around $60 a year. They must come instead from the government. Over 90 percent of UCI's annual budget, for example, is paid for by the Federal government, and hundreds of Nigerians are studying at UCI or abroad on the strength of scholarships from the federal or one of the three Regional governments. At the University College of Ghana, which we also visited, 98 percent...
There is, to begin with, the American ambassador to a Southeast Asian nation called Sarkhan. Louis ("Lucky Lou") Sears is a political hack who does not speak Sarkhanese ("Fifty percent of the entire Foreign Service officer corps do not have a speaking knowledge of any foreign language"). He loathes the people, the place, the climate. By contrast, the Soviet ambassador is a carefully trained career diplomat who reads and writes Sarkhanese, has studied Buddhism. To show his appreciation of the Sarkhanese ideal of slimness, he diets away 40 Ibs.; to indicate his enthusiasm for Sarkhanese music, he becomes "a fairly...
...campaign for re-election to Italy's Senate-concedes that most of the girls from the shuttered houses as well as the vast majority of the nation's 7,000 formerly licensed streetwalkers will simply join the vast army of clandestine prostitutes. Says blunt Angelina Merlin: "Thirty percent of all women between 15 and 60 give themselves up to prostitution in its various degrees." As for complaints that she has imposed an intolerable hardship on Italy's pridefully hot-blooded males, Signora Merlin last week snorted: "No one ever died of continence...
Dean Kerby-Miller emphasized the academic achievements of the past year when she noted that 57 per cent of this year's sophomores, juniors and seniors were on the Dean's List, and 53 percent of the Class of '58 graduated with honors, one-fifth of them with Magnas or Summas...