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...they got to Mission San Gabriel, near the "pueblo of Los Angeles." Nobody took any note of it at the time, but "Smith's appearance in California marked the completion of the Anglo-American's long march across the continent, the fulfillment of his age-old search for a highway to the western...
...compromise in autonomy between the medical profession and a government bureau, the bill embraces the better portions of two extremes into a new and distinctly stronger plan. It should come near accomplishing the age-old goal of medical insurance programs--to keep medicine from being neither a luxury nor a political spoil...
...well-paved courtyards. Reported the mission, of the Fon: "Probably more than 80 years of age [he himself claims to be more than 100), he is now in a stage when he can take a lenient view of this interference in what he might regard as his private affairs." But he pointed out that he did not deliver opinions upon the peculiar habits of Christian society; why, then, had the outside world taken exception to his own tribe's age-old customs? In his capacity as King of all Kom Villages, Rainmaker, Custodian of the Tribal Lands and Link...
...this age of ideological conflict, it is heartening to note that at least one of the cereal companies has not hesitated to take a stand. Wheaties has inaugurated a series of cutouts called "Fight for Freedom." "For many centuries," their blurb reads, "people all over the world have fought to win the kind of freedom we all cherish. We Americans fight to protect our own heritage of freedom when necessary, but we are constantly striving by peaceful means to achieve peace throughout the world . . . situations from the age-old Fight for Freedom were selected in consultation with eminent historians. Details...
...This indicates that young men realize that the answers to many of the problems facing the world today lie in the humanities, where they may gain an understanding of the age-old values which have been the strength of western civilization," he said...