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ARCHITECT WEESE'S DESIGN [for the new U.S. Embassy at Accra-March 4] is COMFORTING AFTER THE EPIDEMIC OF AUDITORIUMS FASHIONED AS STRANGE BIRDS ALIGHTING BACKWARD INTO THE WIND, CHURCH MONSTROSITIES, CRATES ON END AND DETROIT ROAD RUNNER STYLING...
...their show room, the Directeur, "superbly designed for the many requirements of a busy executive," was the star attraction. It included a secretarial compartment, ticker tape news screen, phonograph, and telephones. Inside sat a capitalistic-looking executive and a pretty secretary neatly stowed in her special compartment which faced backward from the front seat...
...pushed the Nationalist Party's policy of "apartheid" (segregation) into every corner of South African life. In the name of preserving the purity of Western civilization from the "mongrelizing influence" of the blacks, Strijdom has spared no effort in keeping the non-Europeans in his country separate and backward. The Prime Minister now seeks to segregate the two remaining "open" universities in South Africa, thereby completing the process of "separate development" in education...
...four Windward Islands (Dominica, St. Lucia, St. Vincent, Grenada), which are also small, beautiful and backward...
...Potting Shed is that most truly dramatic of detective stories, a what-done-it, a shadowy trek backward from an effect to a cause. James Callifer is divorced from a wife who loved him, is unwelcome in his implacably rationalist family. Incapable of loving, of really feeling alive, he is equally incapable of understanding why. Everything earlier than a moment in the family potting shed when he was 14 is blotted out of his mind, has been carefully blacked out of his family's, and offers not a chink of light to his psychoanalyst. The journey back-Greene ingeniously...