Word: attendant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Switch. Jack Kennedy, politician, was-and is-a long way from the likes of Pat Kennedy and Honey Fitz, a fact still resented by some of Boston's old Irish types. Says one: "Tell me, who'd he ever get a job for? When did he ever attend a wake? When did he ever get out and rustle food for a poor starving family? Or raise the money for an undertaker?" In fact, Kennedy is even inept at the "Irish Switch," a maneuver that consists of vigorously shaking one person's hand while talking enthusiastically to someone...
...Egypt, better health and sanitation services than they had ever known in Palestine. UNRWA provides extra rations for pregnant and nursing women, midday meals and vitamin pills for children. UNRWA's education facilities are making the refugees an intellectual elite among Arabs. Nearly 100% of the male children attend school, almost 25% of the girls (Arab parents have still to be sold on education for daughters). Nearly 400 refugees are studying in universities on UNRWA scholarships...
PARIS, Nov. 28--NATO nations decided today to go ahead with next month's summit meeting even if ailing President Eisenhower cannot attend. A communique from NATO's permanent council said, "We learn with regret that President Eisenhower will be prevented from attending the NATO meeting on December...
...transfers from nearly 200 applicants. The stated policy sent to each person requesting transfer information reads thus: "Each year Harvard admits a limited number of transfer students from other colleges who are honor students in their own colleges and who have a substantial academic reason for wanting to attend Harvard. The competition is rigorous and only those men who are particularly well-qualified are selected...
Those applicants who finally arrive at Harvard find that there is really no special provision made for them as transfers. They are invited to attend the functions of Freshman Orientation Week if they wish, but afterwards they are on their own. Many transfers are not assigned an adviser and do not have the customary freshman adjustment aids. In addition, the transfer student is immediately faced with the problem of selecting a field of concentration, a choice that must be made earlier at Harvard than at most other colleges. He must also begin advanced course work for which he is often...