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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...about to shell Rothenburg. McCloy had visited Rothenburg and he remembered it -the narrow cobbled streets within the wall, the Gothic spires, the Renaissance houses. "Do you have to destroy Rothenburg?" he pleaded. "Maybe not," said Hodges. "Maybe the town can be induced to surrender." Negotiations were begun. Next day Rothenburg surrendered, and in 1948, out of gratitude, it made Jack McCloy an honorary citizen...
...This school was founded in 1936 by the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church U.S.A., which has been operating in Persia (now Iran) since 1870, when it took over the work that the American Congregationalist Church's mission had begun there in 1834. It has U.S. textbooks, curriculum and, mostly, American teachers. The student body is made up of 51 Americans and 245 nationals from 27 other countries. They are the children of businessmen, diplomats, and refugees who have found a home in Iran. In order to enroll they have to pay tuition and have an adequate...
...week's end, after the government had said that Lechin could come back "when things return to normal," most of Bolivia was working again. Even the miners had begun to go back to the pits. The only important exceptions were U.S. and other foreign mine managers, who had been evacuated by plane after the fighting stopped. Many of them refused to return to their posts, leaving Bolivia short of the know-how needed...
...Concoction. "It was more or less an accident," Holt once said, "that I became a college president." The son of a Manhattan judge, he had begun as a journalist, for eight years was editor and owner of the magazine Independent. With William Howard Taft he helped found, in 1915, the League to Enforce Peace, ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. Senate in 1924. He still found time to concoct a few theories on what a modern college should be. In 1925, Rollins gave him a chance to try them...
...punch holes in man; they pester him, keep him awake, infect him with deadly diseases. So well-financed scientists, determined to deal with mosquitoes, have studied them intensively for more than half a century, accumulating a vast amount of information. But, as Dr. Bates points out, they have hardly begun to find out how even the best-known species go about their business...