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...addition, Rockefeller is described as still deeply shaken by the tragic loss of his adventurous 23-year-old son, Michael, last month in Dutch New Guinea...
...Ghanaian education. Under the provisions of the new bill (which is certain to pass the rubber-stamp Parliament), government-appointed school board governors will exercise censorship over textbooks and teaching methods so that they hew closely to the government's chosen line. Even Nkrumah's leftist neighbor, Guinea's Sekou Touré, was put off by this action. Refusing to come to Accra for the installation of Nkrumah, Touré said to a visitor: "Who ever heard of a politician and head of state taking over the direction of all a country's higher education...
...seasonal rains descended on the miasmal coast of southern New Guinea, and with them came the end of the air search for Anthropologist Michael Clark Rockefeller, 23, last seen a fortnight earlier swimming away from his capsized boat in the shark-ridden Arafura Sea (TIME, Dec. 1). Though missionaries and Papuan natives doggedly beat on through the increasingly impassable bush, the Australian rescue helicopters departed-as did Michael's father, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, who, upon his arrival at Idlewild Airport, first began to use the past tense in describing his adventurous youngest son: "He knew...
Seven Dead, Dozen Wounded. To film and record customs of New Guinea's partly tamed head-hunting tribes, the Harvard expedition hiked into the island's midland wilderness. To a restless spirit, the jungle appealed. Rockefeller grew a beard, Indian-wrestled with companions until he became the expedition champion. He carried out enthusiastically his assignment as sound technician, taping Papuan war chants and the curious teeth grinding that passes for Papuan singing...
...Skulls. The expedition ended in September, and sun-bronzed Michael Rockefeller made a quick visit home. There he learned a well-kept family secret that was made public fortnight ago: after 31 years marriage, his mother and father were headed toward divorce (TIME, Nov. 24). Rockefeller returned to New Guinea for a three-month expedition of his own along the south coast; he planned to gather shields, painted skulls and the Papuans' 20-ft.-tall totemlike "bis" poles for Manhattan's Museum of Primitive Art, founded by his father. His efforts inspired little enthusiasm on the part...