Word: sayed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From the mail received in the first few days after the article appeared, the Times last Sunday printed seven letters or epistolary excerpts. Of these, five took issue with Crowther and two supported him. Whether this accurately reflects general opinion on the matter I couldn't say. At any rate, Crowther's column is probably the most potentially damaging Sunday piece he has ever printed. Since his words are received in many quarters as nothing short of scriptural, he should be refuted on this subject by every possible means. So let me touch briefly on the points as he raised...
...Protestant hell broke loose. Last week the dean was getting more space in Australian letters-to-editors than the crisis in the Congo. "Degrading the holy office of a Christian minister," cried the Rev. Allan Walker, superintendent of Sydney's Central Methodist Mission. "I am bound to say," Melbourne's Anglican Dean Barton Babbage felt bound to say, "I regard Dean Baddeley's gambling activities with embarrassment and dismay...
...expansion belts. Sudden gushes of icy water down crevasses drenched them repeatedly. At times they dangled in space 20 ft. out from the face of the Diamond. As they fought their way up, the acoustics of the mountain carried wisps of their comments to the gathering crowd below: "Say, I think it's getting colder again." Dusk of the second day found them precariously camped on a ledge 4 ft. long and 15 in. wide, wolfing down salami, boned chicken and chocolate before bracing themselves for another sleepless, terrifying night...
Mboya's activities embroil him with British colonial officers in Kenya, who say that Mboya, by the selection methods he uses, often sends "inferior" students to the U.S., where they often can get into only "inferior" colleges (e.g., small Southern Negro institutions). They are embittered after they get home, say the British, when they cannot meet the higher-education job specifications the British insist upon, based on British models. The British also argue that they themselves are training Africans to run new nations...
...sharp retort, Mboya's American associates say that only two or three of this year's batch of 200 Kenya students in the U.S. dropped out-and even they had gained from going to school in the U.S. Some are also swapping campuses: Washington A.J. Okumu, who began at Iowa Wesleyan, now has a two-year scholarship at Harvard. What counts, says Mboya's men, is that Africans need higher education at all levels-and that the British fail to provide enough...