Word: cosmopolitanism
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Chemist Torbjorn Sikkeland, 37, was born in Norway and educated at the University of Oslo. In 1957 he came to Berkeley as an exchange scientist and won a permanent place on the Radiation Lab's cosmopolitan staff. He is the only one of the four with a Ph.D. But the lack of an advanced degree is no handicap to the others; top-rank laboratories admit that doctorates are nice decorations, but the lab directors know only too well that the degrees often mean little more than three extra years of unprofitable study...
...been ordered to a factory in remote Inner Mongolia for at least five years. He was not surprised. Of bourgeois origin, he was an 'expert' indeed, but not 'Red' enough to remain in Shanghai, a city that is still suspected of bourgeois and cosmopolitan proclivities. 'I shall work wherever the authorities decide I can be most useful to the country,' he kept repeating. 'My fiancee understands this perfectly...
Wellborn Babes. Dorian scouts the world for new talent, has helped make the Parisian model market so cosmopolitan that perhaps not even De Gaulle himself could turn back the clock. Among the season's best: trim and Finnish Brigitte Juslin, who is tops in sportswear; Switzerland's dark, blue-eyed Carla Marlier; Germany's Nico Ozack ("a magnificent Renoir body-in the nude she doesn't look like a model at all"); Jasmine, ex-shepherdess from Algeria, who gained her poise carrying water jugs on her head. The favorite in the February Harper's Bazaar...
When a dancer does well, she provokes a quiet bombardment of dollar bills-although the Manhattan clubs prohibit the more cosmopolitan practice of slipping the tips into the dancers' costumes. With tips, the girls average between $150 and $200 a week, depending on basic salary. Although they are forbidden to sit with the customers, the dancers are sometimes proffered drinks, and most of them can bolt one down in mid-shimmy...
...cooperating churches. While loudly proclaiming its zeal to win the world for Christ, it yet bans any official relationship to national or world ecumenical movements. As they invade new territories, domestic and foreign, their cultural and social presuppositions are being challenged the more. The denomination is gradually becoming more cosmopolitan...