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...Hitherto, young Symington has been best known in Washington society as a baritone folk singer and guitar player who performed for Queen Elizabeth II while he was special assistant (from 1958 to 1960) to his cousin, John Hay Whitney, then Ambassador to Britain. When the Symingtons went to Washington, he began entertaining foreign visitors at informal songfests, usually in duet with his petite, chestnut-haired wife. An accomplished pianist and harpsichordist, Sylvia Symington has worked as a volunteer music teacher to Washington slum children, in 1960 organized a group of women to help wives of African diplomats overcome their...
...than hunger exploded into violence: communal riots, the ugly outbreak of fighting between groups of different religions or languages that has all too often bloodied the nation. By week's end, 14 persons had been killed, 500 injured and nearly 1,500 jailed as Sikhs and Hindus, who hitherto had lived together in relative peace, fought in the streets of Delhi and in scores of towns in the state of Punjab. Cried a Hindu nationalist leader: "All Punjab is on fire...
...will bubble even more. Most of Dudley's facilities will move into the fourth floor of a renovated Lehman Hall. And the rest of Lehman is going to be turned into Crossroads-Harvard. There will be lounge and study facilities, a reference library and television classroom for Harvard's hitherto mysterious night students, and what will nominally be the Dudley House Dining Hall--and in reality a combination Waldor-Elsie's Pamplona. The dining room, according to Dudley's Master Thomas E. Crooks, "will serve as a central meeting place where students and teachers can discuss anything from grades...
...monotony. To work their way out of this impasse, some architects now think that they have found the solution right in the heart of the building itself. They are designing buildings that 1) make an asset of the very plumbing, air-conditioning ducts and service areas that have hitherto been tucked away behind the clean façades, and 2) letting the irregularly shaped functional areas within a building be seen clearly from the outside...
...Wyckoff Heights Hospital has been studying it, and he thinks that his colleagues ought to do the same. The wriggly microbe, Vibrio fetus, which is one of the most common causes of animal abortions, he reports in the Journal of Pediatrics, is probably responsible for a similar, and hitherto generally unrecognized, venereal disease...