Word: herbs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Basically, three weekly events will serve to promote friendship among the students. Normally, the social week will be kicked off by a Square Dance at the Harvard Union on Tuesday evening, with the well-known caller Herb Gaudreau calling the sets...
...some regions, notably South America and Africa, the herb hunters were all over. Led by Dr. John Wurdack, the New York Botanical Garden's Expedition No. 21 was at the headwaters of the Orinoco. Seeking new or rare plants, its professional botanists were especially alert for any with medicinal promise. On five continents, 750 physicians and other medical people at 170 Seventh-day Adventist hospitals and clinics run by California's College of Medical Evangelists were collecting plants, getting patients to bring in samples of folk remedies, sometimes peering over the shoulders of witch doctors to see what...
...Like many similar efforts, the College of Medical Evangelists' search was bankrolled by business. In the hope that it would turn up marketable items, New York's Sterling Drug Inc. had just underwritten the four-year program for $240,000. Virtually all major U.S. drug companies had herb hunters afield, either directly employed or under contract. All their people have been enlisted as part-time hunters: when Francis C. Brown, president of New Jersey's Schering Corp., was in Port-au-Prince for the recent opening of the Haiti Psychiatric Institute, he heard...
...tile-floored office at the San Diego Union (circ. 88,646), Editor Herbert G. Klein, 41, last week cleared his desk for a leave of "indefinite" duration. Able, easy-eyed Herb Klein, a World War II Navy officer who rose out of the city room to the top editorial post on the pivotal paper of the 15-paper Copley Press, had received a summons from a friend in Washington: Richard Nixon. Next week Editor Klein will fly to Washington for his new job as special assistant to the Vice President...
...first big assignment will be to handle the Vice President's news chores on the July good-will trip to Moscow. From then on he will be Nixon's press secretary through the 1960 campaign.* And if 1960 should be Richard Nixon's year, Herb Klein might well be expected to move on to the White House as the successor to Presidential Press Secretary Jim Hagerty...