Word: atwoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...impressed by Kayira's "journey of unbelievable hardship" that he quickly wrote Skagit for aid. While the boy spent hours in the U.S.I.S. library boning up on algebra, Skagit's students raised more than $1,100 to guarantee clothing and round-trip fare. Schoolteacher William Atwood, father of seven, offered a free home at the Atwoods' roomy farmhouse in nearby Bayview. Mrs. Atwood quashed the only unpleasantness in the entire affair. Huffed one neighbor: "What if he wants to take your daughter to a dance?" Replied Mrs. Atwood: "That will be fine. My girls love to dance...
Erasing the Doubts. The prestigious U.S. delegation, headed by Dillon and including U.S. Inter-American Development Bank Director Robert Cutler, ICA Latin American Chief Rollin Atwood, Development Loan Fund Managing Director Vance Brand, Assistant Treasury Secretary Graydon Upton, listened, argued, learned. Dillon's speech erased most of the Latin Americans' doubts...