Word: attendance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Algerian nationalists-Tunisia, by giving the F.L.N. rebels a base on its soil, and Iraq, by sending them some $10 million in cash-boycotted the whole conference. Tunisia stayed away because President Bourguiba insists that the League is still dominated by Egypt's Nasser, and Iraq refused to attend for the same reason. And even as the men in Casablanca talked unity, Radio Baghdad broadcast new testimony that Nasser had backed the army officers who plotted last March's Mosul rising (see below) against Iraq's Premier Kassem-to which Cairo replied by charging that Iraqi pilots...
Furthermore, 74 per cent of all respondents did not belong to any of the local religious fellowships--Hillel, Newman Club, Canterbury, etc. This fact, along with the high percentage of those who attend church more at home than at Harvard, give further indication of the individual nature of religion among at least those responding to this poll. There is a divergence here between religious thought and religious practice, where church attendance is regarded as secondary to theological speculation. This physical separation from the centers of religious gathering encourages eclecticism and free choice among religious doctrines, and is considered by most...
...route from the airport to Blair House, his official guest quarters across Pennsylvania Avenue from the White House. A minimum number of Soviet red flags will be displayed by the U.S. in Washington; there will be no parades through red-flag-decked streets. On his first night, Khrushchev will attend a formal dinner given by the President, and the next day will visit the Agricultural Research Center at Beltsville, Md., address a luncheon at the National Press Club (with nationwide radio and television coverage), tour the capital, and play host at dinner for President and Mrs. Eisenhower...
...example, that the beatniks parked outside a nearby apartment house ("There are a lot of elderly people in that apartment building that don't feel very good anyway, and this bothered them"). A man declared that he saw beatniks drinking wine and beer, that he paid admission to attend a life class in the Gas House basement where a nude woman posed, and that he was propositioned by a homosexual. There were tales of lust, drink, and the strange sound of bongos emanating somehow from the sewers...
...include not only mental ability but physical build, health, and social and emotional maturity. Schools are not generally equipped to handle such exhaustive testing, but proud parents would probably be happy to foot the bill for a private psychologist. Over the country, many youngsters who miss the cutoff point attend private schools for a year and then go public in the second grade. In Houston, where the whole matter has been put on a cash basis, eager mothers gladly shell out a special head tax of $90 to break the cutoff rule...