Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the guidance of Howard Greene, Trip Chairman, the Boston chapter now meets once a month, and up to 125 members attend discussions of railroad topics. "Some of us just never grow up," Greene believes. "We may mature in some ways, but there's always something of a kid in a rail fan." Greene has carried his kidstuff to the point that he now possesses one of the country's largest libraries of railroadiania--about 3,500 volumes, "though I can't match Harvard's collection," he admits...
Weisskopf, long a believer in freer exchange of scientific ideas between the U.S. and Russia, was one of 14 physicists invited by the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Ten or 12 are expected to attend, according to the Atomic Energy Commission...
City. Church World Service met the sailors, gave them American clothing, medical care and spending money, arranged for them to get factory jobs, meet other Russian refugees, attend English-language studies at Columbia University, as they chose. Three of the Russians lived at the university's International House, where they talked about hard work and buying U.S. cars, dated American girls and impressed new-found friends by their delight in "planning things." "They had attacks of homesickness," said Dr. William Cullen Bryant,* their instructor at Columbia, "but then many students...
Jakobson, too, is still uncertain about the details of the late May meeting of slavicists. With his U.S. passport--recently validated for travel in the Soviet Union--Jakobson is free to attend, even though he left Russia in 1920 as a known opponent of the Soviet regime...
...Houses will close Friday night affairs to freshmen but most Saturday dances will be open. Dunster, however, because of space limitation will allow only Funsters Saturday. Freshmen may generally attend the rest of the dances at the Houses to which they applied. Few Yardlings are expected over the weekend, since the Freshman Jubilee is scheduled a week before, from April 27 to 30, Goldberg stated...