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Twenty-nine Faculty members from 14 different fields will meet during spring recess for a four-day symposium on "Digital Computers and Their Applications" at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Brookline...
...Janeiro, Brazil's four-day pre-Lenten carnival is wild enough. Surging through the city's streets, jamming its clubs, they sing, samba and spray passers-by with ether, in a pleasure-madness that only exhaustion can satiate. But for Brazil's women, the Rio carnival is a rare escape from the censorious control normally exercised by fathers, husbands and fiancés. Peeling off some of their clothes and more of their inhibitions, perfectly respectable Brazilian wives and mothers become during the Rio carnival the houris of their innermost dreams...
...area, relief, the Kennedy Administration has taken action. Last week the President announced a food-for-peace mission to be sent to Latin America, also dispatched Health, Education and Welfare Secretary Abraham Ribicoff to Miami for a four-day, on-the-spot survey of 32,000 Cuban refugees. The day after Ribicoff returned to Washington with his recommendations, Kennedy announced a $4,000,000, nine-point program of refugee aid. Among the ideas: training in U.S. methods for displaced physicians, teachers and other professionals; a program of care for unaccompanied children; subsidies to provide for the education of all children...
...there was good reason for insisting on such a fight to the finish: to settle beyond doubt the bets that were hollered across the ring by fans waving fistfuls of money. One typical fight last week drew 30 bets averaging $100 each-enough to run total betting during the four-day tournament to well over $750,000. Betting in Florida is just as illegal as cockfighting is legal, but no one seemed to worry. "It's all been taken care of long before the fighting starts," explained one reserved-seat...
...four-day conference will deal mainly with Algerian culture and heritage, said organizer Alex Korns '62, and NSA representative Don Clifford. Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy House, and Elliot J. Berg, teaching fellow in Economics, will address the group...