Word: bucks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...princesses. Queen Juliana democratically lodged all 130 guests at Amsterdam's plush Amstel Hotel instead of scattering them through her own draughty palaces. (Hotel bill: $7,000.) She showed equal sense when it turned out that a royal expedition to the famed Keukenhof tulip fields would have to buck traffic jams swollen by a European soccer cup final in Amsterdam. Instead of sending her guests by car or state coach, Juliana packed them into three buses, each specially equipped with a bar. and the riders looked for all the world like Greyhound passengers rattling through Kansas. The experience...
...fact many of the nicknames are now standard references for courses--house-hold words, if you will: "Mint Juleps" for History 165, Paul Buck's History of the South; "Ren and Ref" for History 130, Myron Gilmore's The Age of the Renaissance and Reformation; "Boats" for History 163, Maritime and Naval History with Robert Albion; "Rice Paddies" for Social Sciences 111, The History of Far Eastern Civilization; and "Chink Think" for Humanities 112, Classics of the Far East...
...Kirkland production succeeds in capturing the humor, the squalor, the tragedy, and the eeriness of the play. The show starts slowly, but by the second act it is really rolling, and the climactic scenes in the church at Buck Creek and on the mountain peak are powerful theatre...
Slash the Red Tape. The story got to Dr. Ralph Jones Jr., chairman of the University of Miami's Department of Medicine. An expert at slashing red tape, "Buck" Jones moved fast. "By noon of next day," he says, "we had found nearly a third of the Havana medical faculty-working as nurses and orderlies, or opening lobsters in restaurants, or running cars at the beach hotels." By that night, in a gallant gesture, Dr. Jones put all the Cuban medical teachers on salary as visiting professors at his own school...
...same for the hundreds of other Cuban doctors -many of them with some U.S. medical training-living around Miami. So with a core group of Cubans from the Havana University staff (all but half a dozen of the 155 pre-Castro professors and assistants have fled), Buck Jones set up the Faculty in Exile. With U.S. volunteers joining in as tutors, the Cubans were offered a total of 80 hours a week free in graduate medical courses, plus English...