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...said. Forty students—chosen out of a 140-person lottery—attended “Eastern Etiquette: A Guide to Protocol, Manners, and Culture in China,” co-sponsored by the Harvard-Radcliffe Chinese Students Association (HRCSA) and the Harvard International Business Club (HIB), held at the Royal East Restaurant in Cambridge. HIB manager Edmond W. F. Cheuk ’09 said that the event was organized in response to what the organizers saw as China’s intrigue in Harvard students. “Since China is a place with ever increasing...
This certainly doesn't mean parents should give up on implants. The risk of infection is still tiny. The study advises that all children getting implants have the shots (pneumococcal and Hib) that protect against meningitis. Also, parents should watch for warning signs of infection, such as a high fever and a stiff neck. --By David Bjerklie
...Experts say new vaccines and treatments for a common type of influenza called Hib can prevent up to one-third of the cases of hearing loss in young children...
...managed to enrapture a particular type of rich man -- Great Lakes ! mercantile magnates. Darwin Martin, a mail-order-soap chief executive from Buffalo, commissioned houses and offices and lent him tens of thousands of dollars. Fallingwater was the country house of Pittsburgh department-store owner Edgar Kaufmann, and for "Hib" Johnson of Johnson's Wax he designed an enormous house as well as a corporate headquarters. Richard Lloyd Jones, the architect's newspaper-publisher cousin, called him a "strutting, self- seeking, self-centered charmer" -- but he loved the house Wright built him, even though it (typically) went 50% over budget...
DIED. Herbert Fisk Johnson, 79. longtime head of Johnson's Wax and art aficionado; of pneumonia; in Racine, Wis. "Hib," who in 1922 began to work for the company founded by his grandfather, was a pioneer in providing employee benefits; he established a pension and hospitalization plan in 1934. In 1936 he commissioned from Architect Frank Lloyd Wright a now famous office building in Racine and in 1962 invested $750,000 to buy U.S. art, which is now housed in the Smithsonian Institution...