Word: emmanuel
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Despite his recent needling of the U.S., Macapagal last week sent Vice President Emmanuel Pelaez to the U.S., aboard the first jet flight of Philippine Air Lines from Manila to San Francisco. After protracted State Department wooing, Pelaez agreed to fly on to Washington for informal White House talk. Pelaez may well echo what Macapagal himself said last week: "The Philippines' role in Asia is to demonstrate that democracy works. It will be the most eloquent proof and justification of our following the U.S. The success of Philippine democracy is a demonstration of the American idea of freedom...
...against mere national governments. He sent squads of his blackshirted thugs against the Communists then forming Soviets in towns all over northern Italy. He believed that the factories should be taken over, all right-but that he should take them in the name of Italy. To little King Victor Emmanuel III, he seemed to promise order in a chaos of revolutionaries; the midget monarch asked him to take charge...
...early 13th century when some Oxford scholars fled their violent town-gown riots and settled in the fens 53 miles north of London. Beginning in 1284 with Peterhouse, now the smallest college (240 undergraduates), Cambridge has grown to 21 colleges-including rich, intellectual Kings, athletic Jesus and Emmanuel, social (and biggest: more than 800) Trinity, plus Girton and Newnham for the 666 women undergraduates that Cantabs complain...
...Associated Harvard Clubs established the Harvard Studentship in memory of Lionel deJersey Harvard '15, a descendent of John Harvard killed in World War I, for a further bond between Harvard College and the college of its founder--Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Like the Fiske Scholar at Trinity, the Harvard Scholar enjoys a proper existence at Cambridge and has an additional stipend for travel on his vacations...
...Studentship offers an opportunity for the Harvard senior to participate fully in the activities at "Emma." He also has the privilege of occupying the suite in the Old Court, in which (reportedly) John Harvard lived. The Harvard rooms at Emmanuel have become a center of student get-togethers. The Harvard Scholar, in addition, becomes an honorary member of Emmanuel organizations, like the Mildmay Essay Club. The group meets weekly for dinner, an essay reading, and conversation, with the "ancient and honorable tradition" of unlimited supplies of beer and tidbits...