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...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...
...Freyda Kaplow, who leads the legislative battle in favor of the project, commented that the "area is doomed to mental health." She added that "the project is of immense importance to the Commonwealth...
...therefore," he said later, in words as noble as were ever spoken under stress, "brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and Empire last for a thousand years, men will still say, This was their finest hour...