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...plane across the Persian Gulf from Kuwait, epitomizes the progress that can be made when a sheikdom has a good ruler, a devoted foreign adviser, and enough oil royalties to work with. The five-island archipelago produces only one-thirtieth of Saudi Arabia's crude, has one-fortieth of Iraq's proven reserves, earns but a fiftieth of Kuwait's royalties. Yet Bahrein (rhyme with ah, rain) is the showplace of the oil kingdoms. Manama, the capital, looks more like a clean town in the West Indies or Bermuda than an Arab town. It has dial phones...
This letter, the fortieth we have received on the subject, arrived after our roundup of "Radcliffe Mother" letters was printed. It is typical of the whole lot, and, judging by information we have received from Washington, is an example of one type of opinion which is now prevalent in regard to the proposed Universal Military Service plan...
...Harvard Square Business Men's Association held their Fortieth Anniversary Banquet last night at the Hotel Continental...
...until tomorrow, is a dinner this evening at the Harvard Club of Boston. The Forty-Fifth Reunion class of 1903 opens its program today with bowling on the green, golf, and backgammon at the Country Club in Brookline, and a dinner at 7 o'clock; the Fortieth Reunion Class started off last night with festivities at the Hatherly Country Club in Scituate and will wind up its preceedings at an Algonquin Club dinner tonight...
...theatregoers will get their first look at the Harvard Dramatic Club's fortieth anniversary spring production tonight, when the curtain rises on "The Survivors" at the Plymouth Theatre at 8:30 o'clock...