Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English. She is also a Roman Catholic teaching sister, member of the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur. A vigorous teacher with a sharp eye for the world's ways, Sister Margaret this summer was named head of Washington, D.C.'s Trinity College (enrollment: 646), her own alma mater ('45). Last week, in her new role as one of the nation's youngest college presidents, Sister Margaret, 36, called a press conference and let fly with some cogent thoughts on the education of U.S. women...
...mass pilgrimage of American Catholic clergy brought three cardinals (New York's Spellman, Boston's Gushing, Philadelphia's O'Hara), five dozen archbishops and bishops, and scores of other U.S. churchmen for a typically American celebration: Homecoming Day. Most were old grads returning to their alma mater-Rome's North American Pontifical College, a stern seminary for U.S. priests that this week celebrated its 100th anniversary...
...mulatto woman named Madame Sam who lived in Algiers, across the river from New Orleans, and supposedly sang a particularly unadulterated brand of old French. Sam, it turned out, was not up to her billing, but she sent Oster chasing downriver to Port Sulphur, where another ancient mulatto named Alma Bartholomew produced, on request, 60 different pre-17th century French songs...
Last weekend Old Grad Rockefeller ('30) made a trip back to his alma mater for the football game with Holy Cross. Considering that the expedition was billed as "nonpolitical," he played some energetic political football, glad-handing every Dartmouth man within reach, tossing big-grin hellos at every housewife, policeman and infant within shouting distance. When he arrived in Manchester the night before the game, Rockefeller-for-President rooters were waiting with a brass band and a batch of placards reading. WHAT A FELLER. ROCKEFELLER and LET'S ROLL WITH ROCK. Next morning Rock rolled over to Concord...
Kazakhstan (pop. 9,300,000), almost as big as all of Western Europe, is second only to the Ukraine as the breadbasket of the nation. It is Russia's top lead and zinc producer, the second-largest source of copper. Its capital, Alma-Ata (Father of Apples), where Leon Trotsky was exiled in 1927, is full of bleak new Soviet-style construction. A more recent exile from Moscow, ex-Premier Georgi Malenkov, now runs a hydroelectric power station at Ust-Kamenogorsk. Uzbekistan (pop. 8,113,000), with new irrigation projects, gives Russia two-thirds of its cotton. Its capital...