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...Moscow last week grinning Ghanaian diplomats gleefully celebrated the signing of a $45 million contract for Soviet development of their nation's mineral and industrial resources. In the Hotel de France in Guinea's steaming capital of Conakry, the lingua franca of the lobby has shifted from French to Russian. At Leopoldville and Stanleyville in tne Congo, Soviet Ilyushin transports buzz familiarly in and out, debouching badly needed food -plus intelligence officers, tactical advisers for premier Patrice Lumumba's army and, according to Western intelligence reports, arms and ammunition...
...graduates are all Turkish, about 12% of the school's 515 students come from other countries in the area, and the figure will rise to as much as 20%. Most of the students are still from upper-class backgrounds; since English is the modern world's technical lingua franca, all studies are conducted in English, and only the best-educated students are equipped to understand the texts. But in time, President Burdell expects his enrollment to include ''sons and daughters of peasants of Anatolia, miners of Zonguldak, fishing families of the Black Sea." In keeping with...
Smith and Abstract Expressionist Philip Guston. Both finished out of the big prize money. But as a whole, the exhibition proved that the modern, peculiarly American idiom of abstract expressionism has become the lingua franca of art the world over. Murky and only half articulate, it is nevertheless spoken everywhere. The idiom has plenty of champions, and may yet find its poet...
LANGUAGE. Many of the new nationalist leaders are more fluent in English, the lingua franca of the Commonwealth, than in their native tongues...
...brought to the U.S. for the St. Louis Exposition of 1904) to speak English, and literate Americans to speak most of the world's tongues. Berlitz Schools in New York are prepared to teach 60 languages, last year taught 37. French is the most popular; Papimento-a Caribbean lingua franca of languages such as Dutch, Spanish, Hindustani-has not yet been requested; Sanskrit has been asked for, but not taught...