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...February 1962, after the Jagan government proposed enforced savings and higher taxes, mobs surged through the Georgetown capital in riots that left six dead and a charred shopping district in the center of town that has not been rebuilt to this day. Jagan had to call in British tommies airflown from London to restore order. An investigating committee sent from London to look into the riots put the major blame on Jagan's government, and noted that in testifying Jagan refused a straight answer to questions about whether he was a Communist...
...addition to President Pusey, honorary degrees will also be awarded to the Rev. Edward B. Bunn, president of Georgetown University, and to Barbara Ward, the British economist. Kennedy received an honorary LL.D. from Boston College...
...Very Reverend Michael P. Walsh, President of Boston College, will present three honorary degrees Saturday. Pusey will receive a Doctor of Humane Letters degree. The Very Reverend Edward B. Bunn, President of Georgetown University, and Lady Barbara Ward Jackson, British economist and author, will also be honored...
...Georgetown University Washington...
...symposium on evolution and Christian theology during the Darwin centennial in 1959-while similar symposiums were held at three other Catholic universities (Fordham, Duquesne, and Chicago's Loyola). ¶ Sociologist Father Raymond Plotvin was forced to withdraw from a major study of family planning in cooperation with Jesuit Georgetown University. Reason: McDonald refused to approve Plotvin's request for a Ford Foundation grant to study "family size preference of American Catholic college girls" because the subject was "too controversial...