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...building will be constructed out of funds raised by the Harvard Medical Center Fund Drive, the estimated cost being approximately $7.5 million. The Medical Center includes the Medical School and seven affiliated hospitals--the Peter Bent Brigham, the Massachusetts General, the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, the Free Hospital for Women, the Boston Lying-in Hospital, the Children's Hospital, and the Beth Israel Hospital...
...committeemen and women present welcomed Alcorn's carefully drawn nine-point reorganizing program -two million more precinct workers, year-long fund-raising campaigns, more emphasis on college-age voters and teenagers, etc. But when it came to the philosophy that the remodeled machine should push, conservatives were less than enthusiastic. And they had the meeting's stronger voices...
...grievances, old and new. The U.S., they complained, had still not settled a $972 million "omnibus claim" covering, among other things, damage done during the World War II fighting in the Philippines. It had yet to come through with the bulk of the $125 million in credits and development funds promised Garcia during his visit to Washington last June. After four years of Philippine pressure and 2½ years of on-again, off-again negotiations, the status of U.S. military bases in the Philippines remains unsettled. Most heinous of all in Garcia's eyes, Washington had refused to grant...
...grievances, the Philippine government was at least as responsible as the U.S. The negotiations over U.S. bases are stalled because of Philippine insistence on greater criminal jurisdiction over G.I.s than the U.S. has granted any country in which it has troops. Garcia returned from the U.S. without the stabilization fund loan after being indiscreet enough to boast in advance that the loan was in the bag. But U.S. officials reply that he had been privately warned on three occasions beforehand that he had no hope of getting it. Unreasonable as Garcia's complaints might be, they lent themselves...
Words & Works. Sponsored by the city, the College Entrance Examination Board and the National Scholarship Service and Fund for Negro Students, the project is no quick educational cureall. The hope is to try to balance the dragging weight of the children's hard-luck homes with a long-range program of understanding help at school. Project classes are small (range: ten to 28); teachers are carefully briefed on each child's background; the children are taken on after-hours class trips, get repeated personal counseling. At George Washington, stocky, balding Counselor David Schulman, who grew up in Brooklyn...