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Died. Hannes Schneider, 64, Austrian-born, internationally famed skimeister regarded as "the father of modern skiing" for his development of the "Arlberg Method" of crouching and swinging instead of standing erect on the downhill run; of a heart ailment; in North Conway, N.H. Schneider taught kings, princes and American millionaires at his ski school at St. Anton am Arlberg, Austria, came to North Conway to found a school in 1939 after a brief imprisonment by the Nazis...
...History courses fall in American History, but range from Russia to Canada in subject matter. History 158, History of Russian Imperial Policy, will be given by Richard E. Pipes, Research Associate in the Russian Research Center, and will cover both Czarist and Soviet imperialism. John J. Conway, assistant professor of History, will teach History 173, History of Canada from...
...board added a sordid postscript to the saga of the Platt children (of Irish-Indian descent), who were barred from school in Mt. Dora because Sheriff Willis McCall arbitrarily decided that they are Negroes (TIME, Dec. 13, 1954 et seq.). By unanimous vote, the board fired Math Teacher Don Conway for giving his blessings to a high-school student petition urging that the Platt children be allowed to stay. Conway's only comment: "If giving the kids my moral support in what I consider a Christian act is guilt, then I guess I'm guilty...
...Enslaved. Author Hobart in her novel tells how two men slip ashore on the China coast to be guided by the anti-Communist underground into Shanghai. One is David Conway, Chinese-born U.S. businessman doggedly intent on rescuing a young American trapped by the Communists. The other is Mu San, whose father, a wealthy Hong Kong refugee, sent him to help Conway's desperate mission...
...series will present a lecture or forum each semester on some leading social problem. The House has already planned a three-program series on Juvenile Delinquency for next fall with Judge John C. Conway, Chief Justice of the Boston Juvenile Court, and John Coughlin of the Youth Welfare Commission, as its speakers...