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...Freedom to Kenyatta." As the smiling U.A.R. President arrived at Cairo University auditorium to welcome delegates to the grandiosely named third All-Africa People's Conference, phalanxes of young Arabs clapped rhythmically and shouted "Nas-ser." Framed against a huge black map of Africa with a red flaming torch thrust into its Congo heart, Nasser told the assembled delegates: "Nothing is more touching or close to the heart than meetings at intervals of brothers in arms, partners in the same fight, soldiers with...
...maze of darting shafts (see color opposite). Some of the sculptures, when touched, danced like plants swaying under water; others, when plucked, sang like a forest in the wind. Italian-born Sculptor Harry Bertoia, 46, is only one of many artists who work with metal and welding torch, but few have managed to release from metal so much graceful versatility...
...addition, the report, entitled "The Torch Lighters" and distributed by the Harvard University Press, maintained that the period of practice teaching required by teachers colleges is often ineffective because the colleges exercise too little control over the process...
...ordered workmen to build temporary housing to accommodate the 6,000 dignitaries he expects from all over the world. Six weeks hence, when the guests gather in a field outside the town, the torch will be touched, and the old King, in his gilded coffin carved from a sandalwood trunk chosen by the bonzes as predestined to receive the royal body, will go up in scented smoke...
...Harvard lets things drift and faces problems only when they become full-scale crises then Harvard will have to pay, in terms of money and of future expansion and certainly in terms of that beloved of the city planners, aesthetics. If the University does not take up the torch soon the Sullivans will be there first every time...