Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Bricks & Physics. Hearing of "people in Uganda who went to school in America," Legson hiked off in 1958 to learn their secret. He walked straight north across Tanganyika. Kayira had only the clothes on his back, but he survived: "Whenever I saw a house being built, I asked to carry...
Kayira set off again, walking 50 miles a day, sometimes hitchhiking, and eventually boarding a White Nile steamer. "I had no food, but by the mercy of God on the boat was an American tourist." This Samaritan fed Kayira until he reached Khartoum, where he marched proudly into the U.S...
Cash & Good Will. Consul Emmett M. Coxson was so impressed by Kayira's "journey of unbelievable hardship" that he quickly wrote Skagit for aid. While the boy spent hours in the U.S.I.S. library boning up on algebra, Skagit's students raised more than $1,100 to guarantee clothing...
Skagit is determined to see him through academically, steer him on to a university. Says Dean George Hodson: "This boy is going to have a good experience in every way. We're going to send back to Africa an emissary of good will for America." Legson knows precisely what...
At Harvard's Graduate School of Public Administration last week, students in Economics 169 and 287 ran into a growing problem: the absent professor. David Elliott Bell had left abruptly to grapple with the U.S. budget; the same school's Economist Edward S. Mason was off surveying the...