Word: laplanders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bench or behind bars, may differ-the book commits no editorial high crimes, merely misdemeanors involving disproportion, inconsistency, British bias, together with some doubtless conscious sins of omission. If it fails to canvass its subject from A to Z (the last entry stops at Y), or from Lapland to Patagonia (it mostly treats Britain, the U.S. and Europe), or from hokus to strychnine (it wholly neglects weapons and poisons), its range is considerable, its writing often sprightly. Edited by a former chief of Scotland Yard, with contributors (almost all English) extending from Ian Fleming and J. Edgar Hoover to Alan...
Professor Curie comes from the University College of Ghana where he was Professor of Education and head of the Department of Education. Previously, he spent three years in Pakistan as a consultant to the Ford Foundation-Harvard Pakistan Project in Economic Planning. His foreign experience also includes service in Lapland, the Sudan and the Middle East. Last summer he was social and economic adviser to the government of Bhutan...
FROM speedy new quadrupod jets and slower prop planes, from fast liners and converted wartime Victory ships, 500,000 Americans will land in Europe this summer in the greatest tourist invasion in history. With curiosity and half a billion in cash, they will wander from the all-night-sun Lapland, north of the Arctic Circle, to the stoned isles of the Aegean. Some will tramp through cathedrals, others will look for the high life, and many will exhaust themselves trying to combine some of both. But Americans in Europe in 1960 are in for some surprises...