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;w.I .ft if r J 1 - - -" -"v rarim a mi a OBAHAM ADDRESSES CROWD Addressing a crowd of thousands, American evangelist Billy Graham gestures as he speaks in Haile Selassie Stadium in Addi Ababa, Ethiopia. In Cairo Graham preached to the largest revival meeting Egypt has ever seen and he called it "the great est victory we've had in Africa." Christian leaders esti mated the crowd at 10,00 but later Graham gave his esti mate as 6,000. Graham is currently on a tour of Africa. (UPI Telephoto) M.any Serviceman Families in Germany Living in Seclusionf Frankfurt, Germany (UPD One of the greatest para doxes among Americans in Germany is the popularity of the controversial "The Ugly Amercan" in U.S. Army li braries. For the book, which blasts Americans abroad for living in insular life completely re moved from that of the na tives, mirrors in a hundred ways the lives of the inhabi tants of "Little Americas" dotted around the German countryside. Many American officials are not happy at this shutting off of the outside world by families of servicemen living here. But the obstacles, they say, are just too many, and the segregation of the two na- tons will have to continue. The Germans in cities with large Amercan populations generally are fatalistic about the whole affair. Their Affair The general opinion is, "If the Amercans don't want to mix with us, then that's their affair and we aren't going to force them." Many U.S. officials, how ever, would like to see the dispersement of the thousands of Americans living abroad in vast housing projects near military bases.'More than 30, 000 Americans live in five sprawling housing projects in northern Frankfurt alone. The projects are made up of apartment houses built to Am erican specifications around streets mirroring exactly the "back home" atmosphere the inhabitants yearn for. The streets bear German names but all else is Am erican. Even the garbage is collected by Germans in Am erican uniforms, and the chil dren are shepherded to and from school not by German police, but by American mill tary police. The schools themselves might as well be in Steuben ville, O., as in Germany. Only a tiny handful of American children in Germany go to Germany schools, although the local curriculum is gener ally acknowledged to be one of the world's best. Attend Army Schools Instead, they attend Army run schools which extend all the way from kindergarten to the local branches of Mary land and Stanford Universi ties. More than 1,500 students attend the Frankfurt Ameri can High school alone. Almost no Americans shop at German stores. Instead they buy everything at the Post Exchange, normally a sprawl ing complex of buildings in cluding everything normally found in an American shop ping center. In the Frankfurt PX, be side the department store and commissary are a delicatessen, barber shop, flower store, toy store with a vast range of Eu ropean and American toys. snack bar, beauty parlor and a garage with facilities for every - kind of American car Other complexes are even larger. It takes almost half an hour to walk around the out side of the vast Air Force Post Exchange at Wiesbaden Supporters of the insular approach to . living abroad point out that Army families coming to Germany can buy in the PX the things they are used to getting at home. Opponents of the idea promptly reply that almost all the goods in the PX are avail able on the German market at virtually the same price. The only difference you have to make your purchases in German. Clothing in German stores often is more stylish than that Xopfersas Sub Killers Proven ., New York - (Science Serv ice) - Navy tests have proved conclusively that helicopters can be used day and night and under all weather conditions to find and "kill" submarines. Helicopter flight tests, un der instrument flying condi tions, were made from the decks of modern carriers against evasive submarine targets. Lt. Donald B. Bennie of the Naval Air Test Center, Pa tuxent, Md., told the Institute of the Aeronautical Sciences meeting here today that sub marine - hunting helicopters must be flown automatically by electronic computers. Computers must be used because the processing rate for instrument information at low-altitude hovers is beyond the experienced pilot's abil ity, he said. The tests also showed that the guarding missions for air craft carriers becomes "high ly successful" through use of all-weather helicopters. Camp Fire Girls Girls from Camp Fire groups Ne-Top-Pew and Eluta Kuneki working on fire mak ers rank held a tea for lead ers of Blue Bird groups that flew up recently to be Camp Fire Girls. Each' girl brought cookies for refreshments. They also brought their memory books for the leader to see. As the guests arrived the girls took turns in receiving and introducing the guests. The coming candy and pea nut sale was discussed as well as resident camp for the sum mer; they also discussed about forming a cabinet for junior high girls, and the coming mother-daughter tea. The tea was one require ment for fire maker rank. Sharon Fletcher, Scribe NEED 220-1G0 AMP SERVICE LET SEARS ARRANGE INSTALLATION AS LOW AS SgSOO Nothing Down, 3 Years To Pay On Sears Modernizing Credit Plan Includes: Service for Range, Dryer and Her Water Tank Up to 30 Feet Each. Plus 8 Circuits. PHONE SP 3-6661 FOR FREE ESTIMATES on sale at the PX because the exchange items have to be bought a year in advance in the U.S. Yet the sight of an American woman buying a dress in a store in downtown Frankfurt a city with a population of almost 50,000 Americans is enough to make the store clerks stare. Language is another prob lem which the "anti-insular" group points out. Americans living in the housing areas of ten speak no German after having lived in this country for two years. All their daily dealings are with Americans or English speaking Germans. Abolition of the housing areas, it is claimed, would force more people to speak German with their neighbors and thus help Americans living over here to get more out of their stay. However, there are power ful arguments for the reten tion of the "Golden Ghettos" as the housing projects are sometimes called. Insufficient Housing If the Army had not put up its own housing, it is pointed out, the thousands of Ameri cans in the country would have been forced to compete with Germans for the already insufficient housing available. Most "Americanized" of all German cities is Kaiserslau ten, on the west bank of the Rhine, which GIs call "K town." The center of a sprawl ing complex of a dozen Am erican and Canadian air and army bases, the Kaiserslauten area has an estimated Ameri can population of more than 100,000. Frankfurt, a traditional "GI Town" since the days of World War II, runs a close second although Americans are not too frequently seen on downtown streets, except for the bright-light areas of night clubs and bars around the main railroad station. Easter Headlines - Whip up a pretty veil cap to top your Easter outfit! So flattering - everybody loves them! Fashion hits! SIX . smart, new veil hats for Easter - easy to make, easy on your budget. Trim with velvet bows, roses, daisies. 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Mikhail Prokofiev, deputy minister of Soviet higher edu cation and a chemist himself, was not the first Russian to voice the opinion that there was a tremendous gap in the United States between a scien tific training at the top and at the bottom. Others Comment Several other visiting Rus sians also have commented on what they believed to be the strengths and weaknesses of the American educational sys tem. Many Americans agreed with them. Prokofiev and seven other Soviet - educators spent 12 days touring American uni versities " under the Soviet American cultural agreement. gifts,- toys, bazaar sellers exciting, unusual designs to crochet, knit, sew, embroider, huck weave, quilt. Be first with the newest send 25 cents now! The tour took them to Har vard, Columbia, Brooklyn college, the University of Pittsburgh, Massachusetts In stitute of Technology, and Case Technical Institute. Prokofiev said more stu dents were studying for mas ters and doctoral degrees in all fields in the United States than in the Soviet Union. "We think that your train ing on the advanced level is very well organized," he said. "This is one of the best fea tures of your system." Good Work Said Don The Soviet deputy minister said that good work was being done in American chemistry and ' that the advanced re search laboratories he had seen were well equipped. He said he thought Ameri can engineers got a sufficient ly broad scientific education and that the U.S. industrial leaders with whom he had talked seemed satisfied with the scientific and technical men who come to work for them. "I would like to say some thing about the weaker side of American education," Prokofiev continued. "I think that more mathematics, phys ics and chemistry should be taught in your secondary schools. He said he believed Ameri can students began to special ize too late when they were already well into college -and did not get enough prac tical experience before gradu ation. The Soviet Union is now experimenting with a new program which combines study with practical work in high school and college. The Russians were especial ly interested in a pilot project for three-semester year-round study now under way at the University of Pittsburgh. It allows ambitious students to finish college more quick ly than the usual two-semes-ter-per-year schedule. Russia has no such accelerated pro gram. Prokofiev expressed the hope that the Soviet Union and the United States would soon be able to exchange more scientists. Of the. 27 Russians now here under the student ex change program, about 20 are scientists and technic i a n s. Most of the Americans study ing in Russia this year are working in history, economics, and history of language. 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