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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...from a trip to Bamako, capital of poverty-stricken, landlocked Mali (pop. 4,500,000), he proudly announced the formation of another union. Hence forth, he said, the Ghana and Mali parliaments would meet jointly, to promote the growing unity movement in Africa-though the two countries have no common border or language. It was onward and upward for Osagyefo...
...from Manila, the Philippine barrio (village) of Santo Nino is a town out of the Middle Ages-without plumbing, electricity or medicine. One cause of Santo Nino's squalor is its isolation; for centuries its only access to the outside world has been a winding trail over which common folk move on foot, the more prosperous on donkey back. Last week, sweating under the tropical sun, 200 half-naked men and boys from Santo Nino were hacking out a broad, five-mile highway to take out the village's production of timber, copra and rice, and in return...
...this country for his great war novel, Days and Nights, and for such lyrical poems as "Wait for Me" and "Do You Remember." During his brief visit to the University last week, Simonov, acting on his own initiative, spent Thursday evening talking to undergraduates in the Adams House common room...
...future minded about non-science affairs than other men, nor that the scientist in the street would be better at secret decisions than, say, the historian in the street, whose discipline is also constantly undergoing revision. Probably neither would do well as a politician. Only Snow's immense common sense keeps him from sounding like the post-World War I expert-ists such as Veblen and Walter Lippmann...
...ideology. His weak argument for more scientists in top government positions derives from something more serious and more important: a revulsion against the current western attitude of hopelessness about politics and all attempts to organize men in he service of a common ideal. To the extent that his mood is born of a sense of the emptiness of so much of the activity in our society, and separating it from his catch-phrase talk about "future-directed" scientists, I would applaud it heartily...