Word: setting
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Accompanied by his chic French wife Christiana, Matta set up housekeeping in a native hut. A slight (barely 100 Ibs.) man with bristling black hair and piercing eyes, he had a strange way with the wild animals-antelopes, buffaloes, lions, elephants-that were his charges, walked fearlessly among the wildest and greatest beasts. He always refused to carry a weapon against them. "If I did," he said, "even not to use it, the charm wou'd vanish, for I would have the overwhelming conviction of having committed a betrayal of the animals' trust." He bathed with hippos, swam...
...Nikita himself genially traded stag jokes with French influentials, beamingly invited a handsome girl folk dancer to visit him in Moscow, and clutched to his bosom everything from lambs to schoolchildren. And during a flight in one of France's handsome jet Caravelles, which he vocally admired, he set the hearts of French industrialists aflutter with the offhand statement: "I'll take a dozen to start with...
...Indonesia's peripatetic President Sukarno, Kassem watched from a special reviewing platform, but the crowd was not so large as in the Partisans' parade a year ago. In open distress, the Communist-line newspaper Al-Hadhara beseeched Kassem for support: "A few words from you will set everything right again." A year ago, the Communists would not have...
...Reserve Bank, making it into a modern central bank. He dabbled in journalism as holder of controlling interest in a struggling little newspaper called La Prensa. World War II took him to the U.S.: Washington (as ambassador), Bretton Woods (to help organize the World Bank), San Francisco (to help set up the U.N.). Returning to Peru, he built La Prensa along U.S. newspaper lines into the most influential daily in Lima. He at first supported the army dictatorship headed by Manuel Odria, then helped persuade Odria to eliminate himself by holding the free election that Prado...
...Morrilton, Ark. (pop. 6,000) the burning question is whether to keep up with a millionaire named Winthrop Rockefeller, who has fostered something rare in his' adopted state: a school district that spends money. This began in 1956, when Rockefeller launched a $2,500,000 plan "to set a pattern for other school districts to follow." He has since given Morrilton schools $100,000 a year, picked up the $800,000 tab for a model elementary school, and so roused the citizenry that they floated a $350,000 bond issue, doubled real estate assessment and boosted school taxes...