Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passport to go abroad "for pleasure and study." About 1,000,000 other U.S. citizens got passports during this period, but Dr. Nathan ran into difficulties. As an economics professor at New York University and the executor of Physicist Albert Einstein's will, Dr. Nathan specifically wants to attend the Jubilee of the Relativity Theory in Bern, Switzerland, to seek cooperation from scientists in preserving and publishing Einstein's manuscripts. But the State Department first stalled, then denied Dr. Nathan his passport, vaguely letting it be known that there was damaging material in the files against...
...Usher of the Black Rod, Lieut. General Sir Brian Horrocks-once one of Ike's corps commanders in World War II but now rigged up in kneebreeches-knocked three times with his staff at the barred doors. When the doors swung open, he ceremoniously summoned the members to attend upon Her Majesty in the House of Peers...
...procession in the cathedral actually took place two days after Corpus Christi Day. Because Perón had cut that feast day from the list of national holidays, the archdiocese of Buenos Aires postponed the traditional Corpus Christi procession from Thursday to Saturday so that more workingmen could attend. In an attempt to divert Catholics from the Plaza de Mayo, Perón & Co. timed Boxer Pascual Pérez homecoming from Japan (where he had defended his world flyweight championship) to coincide with the Corpus Christi ceremonies. At midweek the government invoked the law, passed after the church feud...
...Roman Catholics are under episcopal instructions to welcome Negroes to white churches in accordance with papal pronouncements on discrimination and racism. In some areas, white and Negro Catholics attend the same church and send their children to integrated public schools. But practice varies in different dioceses, and most Catholic Negroes still go to segregated schools (including parochial) and attend Negro churches...
...roadblocks of censorship suddenly appeared on the normally safe college debating circuit during the past academic year, Obstruction begin soon after the National intercollegiate Committee on Debate and Discussion selected the number one topic for argumentation: "Resolved--That the United States should attend diplomatic recognition to the Communist Government of China...