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...have heard two basic excuses for this neglect of Indian studies. The first is that Harvard should not embark on an Indian studies program unless it can do it properly and on a continuing basis ... Since the amount of Indian studies going on at present in this country is not exactly overwhelming, Harvard will itself have to assist in the necessary training. Add to this the fact that many people are already interested in India, and one sees the rather obvious necessity for some intermediate program until a center, can be established. This might consist of at least a couple...
...blood-colored movies and in the flesh, Dr. Norman A. Christensen of the Mayo Clinic urged his colleagues at the A.M.A. to embark on a crusade. What he wants is nothing less than an all-out campaign to eradicate tetanus in the U.S. by having every man, woman and child immunized with toxoid and periodic booster shots...
...pursue the Kennedy economic programs that already have momentum, a new president is eventually bound to alter somewhat the course or the speed of such programs. Had President Kennedy been re-elected -by which time he expected the employment situation to be much improved -he planned to embark on a wide variety of new economic programs aimed at curing sectional dislocations in the economy. Whether Johnson will push such programs is less sure...
...week after its stormy birth, the infant nation of Malaysia was hoping for peace but preparing for war. Two Malayan infantry battalions packed their kit bags and prepared to embark for the steaming jungles of Sarawak and Sabah (North Borneo); in Sarawak, orders were issued to raise a native infantry battalion. A round-the-clock watch was begun on the Malayan shore of the Malacca Straits, and 6,000 British, Gurkha and local troops and constabulary units doubled their patrols along Sarawak's tangled, 400-mile border with Indonesian Borneo...
...March 1865, James interrupted his studies to embark on a field trip to Brazil. Louis Agassiz, the great biologist, led the expedition, and for one full year the troupe investigated the fauna and flora of South America. A mild case of smallpox made the initial months unpleasant, though it left James with no facial pock-marks. By October his health and spirits had improved considerably. Despite the ill-concealed homesickness of many of his ship-board letters, James seldom regretted the journey in late life...