Word: commonwealth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cambridge Civic Association will discuss the City's poverty problem at its annual meeting Tuesday night at the Hotel Continental. William vanden Heuvel, New England area Director of the Community Action program of the Office of Economic Opportunity, and John C. Cort, executive director of the Commonwealth Service Crops, will speak. The 3 p.m. meeting is open to the public free of charge...
...belief, the county penal institutions had the hard-earned distinction of being one of the most embarrassing aspects of Massachusetts. In what was thought to be a genuine attempt to correct this situation, Governor Volpe convened a special commission consisting of eleven of the most respected men in the Commonwealth to study the county system of correction...
...native of Australia, Smithies, who is now 57, was born in Hobari, Tasmania, and received an LL.B. from the University of Tasmania. He continued his education as a Rhodes Scholar at Magdalon college, Oxford. Two years later, in 1934, he received a Ph.D. from Harvard as a Commonwealth Fund Fellow...
...Place Like Home. Tourism is still third, after sugar and manufacturing, among industries in the U.S. island commonwealth. But what a business. In the past four years, income from tourism has practically doubled, from $53 million to $96 million. And this year the Chamber of Commerce happily contemplates a take of well over $100 million from 550,000 visitors. Last week, at the height of the winter season, more than 80% of San Juan's total 4,000 rooms were occupied, including the suburban motels and unpretentious rooming houses. Space was so tight in the top spots that prospective...
...goals in the Commonwtalth--Canada hosted the Third Commonwealth Education Conference in Ottawa, where delegations from all over the Commonwealth met to review common problems. Nigeria called for "an increase in the number of teachers, going to developing countries." (Britain provides 5,000 teachers as against 17,000 from France.) India regretted that the goal of 1,000 Commonwealth scholarships had not yet been reached. Canada proposed an educational "peace corps" to attack illiteracy in emerging nations...