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Under the far-flung U.S. technical assistance (Point Four) program, the International Cooperation Administration will build 10,000 badly needed structures in Jordan: a central government laboratory, a tuberculosis hospital, a maternity hospital, a nursing school and 9,996 outdoor privies...
...Education School, Pusey said, is "at a strategic moment in time to make a great contribution" and needs a center in which to unite its far-flung elements and develop its many potentialities...
Various bulletins and events livened the week in the far-flung Kelly-Rainier prenuptials as they roared toward the April 17-19 fiesta in Monaco. Items...
...kilted chief of Scotland's far-flung Clan Campbell, Ian Douglas Campbell, eleventh Duke of Argyll, came in line for a windfall of at least $140,000 from the estate of a stranger, a London-born lady named Mrs. Eliza Sale, who died last December at 88. The big clue behind Eliza's bequest: her maiden name was Campbell. Glowed the duke, a well-heeled man: "I can only assume that the bequest was made to me as head of the Clan Campbell . . . It was a most admirable attitude for the lady to adopt...
...duty in North Africa; at almost the same moment a squadron of F-84s started from Virginia for Okinawa. Each flight stirred up a wasp's nest of Air Defense Command interceptors (practicing supersonic passes at the outbound planes in carefully planned defense exercises), air refueling tankers far-flung in Atlantic and Pacific bases, air traffic controllers, air detection and warning networks, air-sea rescue squadrons, and MATS units hauling spare parts, supplies and technicians...