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Beginning this week, the better part of Protestant Christianity in the U.S. will be conversing with-and congratulating-Princeton Theological. The oldest, biggest and best of Presbyterian divinity schools is starting a 14-month celebration of its 150th anniversary. The most notable parishioner of Gettysburg's Presbyterian Church, Dwight Eisenhower, is honorary chairman of the celebration. Among the many churchmen who have agreed to lecture at Princeton in the coming months are such famed non-Presbyterians as Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the United Lutheran Church in America, Willem A. Visser 't Hooft, General Secretary...
...group of creative scholars." James Bryant Conant 'I4 added, "Universities are the custodians of the great spiritual values which the human race has so laboriously won. . . ." An Alumni Bulletin survey proclaimed that Harvard men had written 308 books between June and December, and the Harvard Medical School celebrated its 150th anniversary with an address in Sanders Theatre from President-Emeritus Lowell. The Geographical Laboratory was getting daily messages from Rear Admiral Byrd in Little America, and President Conant had the 7 o'clock ringing of the bells discontinued in the Yard, while the College's then-most-famous-graduate...
...government-sponsored auction was held to pay for this year's 150th anniversary celebration of Argentina's independence from Spain, but the bidders were not driven by overpowering patriotism. New imported cars, particularly those big shiny Detroit wagons, are almost impossible to get in austerity-conscious Argentina; import duty on foreign cars is 300%, and, except to diplomats, no import permits at all are issued for cars weighing more than 3,300 lbs. Argentines were simply seizing a rare opportunity to buy-no matter how high the bidding went...
...Buenos Aires, his first stop, where he was ostensibly an honored guest at Argentina's 150th birthday celebration. Dorticós slipped away to confer secretly with chiefs of the anti-government Peronista Metal Workers Union...
...still preserves it carefully in a belltower storage room, among tattered and dusty saints and icons. Last week Interior Minister Luis Augusto Dubuc promised Sucre that General Garcia's remains this year will at last find their ultimate resting place in the Pantheon, as Venezuela marks the 150th anniversary of its independence...