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...they automatically assumed had something to do with money or material goods. It was, therefore, a considerable surprise when R. Sargent Shriver Jr., brother-in-law to President John Kennedy and director of the U.S. Peace Corps, stepped down from his DC-3 in open-necked white shirt and grey woolen slacks. Making an eight-nation tour of Asia and Africa in preparation for actual Peace Corps operations, Sarge Shriver, 45, soon assured the Punjabis: "We come not only to teach, but principally to learn." As far as India was concerned, Shriver quickly demonstrated that he had plenty to learn...
Shriver's Punjab stay began with a massive brunch (fruit salad, porridge, fish, bacon and eggs, chicken and tea) with grey-bearded Chief Minister Sardar Partap Singh Kairon. Although he holds a master of arts degree from the University of Michigan, Kairon plainly had the wrong idea about Peace Corps purposes, promptly began asking for agricultural tools and pneumatic tires for bullock carts. Shriver patiently explained that the aim of the Peace Corps was merely to send able and enthusiastic young Americans abroad to work side by side, wherever needed, with the natives of underdeveloped countries. Kairon advised Shriver...
Whitby is proudly "a work school, not a play school," and in their uniform grey skirts and shorts the children at first seem unduly solemn. Silence fills the classrooms; tears and giggles are rare; even teachers speak in near whispers. The visitor is sure that something is drastically wrong. Actually, the children are absorbed in a series of graded "jobs" that each feels compelled to complete-on his own. With almost no visible goading, Whitby's kids learn numbers at three, write at four, read at five, parse sentences at seven. Whitby is at least two years ahead...
...Eighth Day. Eight miles from Dr. Yadin's Cave of Letters in the Wilderness of Judah, the second archaeological team, headed by grey-haired Polish Emigré Pessah Bar-Adon, 53, dug through six feet of debris in another cave. On the eighth day, behind a smooth stone that blocked a wall niche, it discovered a collection of artifacts that Bar-Adon quietly described as "probably archaeologically sensational": 432 copper, bronze, ivory and stone decorated objects that seem to be mace heads, scepters, crowns, powder horns, tools and weapons. Ranging in size from...
...clucks, like popping champagne corks, followed by a throaty gurgle. Johnson lurched forward for three steps, only to freeze motionless-one foot poised ludicrously in midair-as the sound stopped abruptly. In such quick, sporadic scrambles, Johnson covered 150 yds. before he spotted his quarry: a green-and-grey bird with red-hooded eyes, perched comfortably on a pine branch. Johnson's double-barreled shotgun shattered the morning, and the bird dropped. After six years of trying, the hunter had finally bagged his first Auerhahn-the plump European grouse (English name: capercaillie) so rare that it is verboten...