Word: importance
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...when the doctors considered Jambo's personality--not to mention his hopeful glances from beneath a blanket--they should have realized that the trouble was more basic than rejection by his cage keeper. What Jambo needs, and what the doctors should import, is a brown, furry, Central African, Swahili-captured, female gorilla...
...expedition to native and foreign galaxies. Dr. Thomas subs for Captain Video as Astronomy 1 takes to the space lanes. Launching platform: Byerly 1. The ever-popular David Owen will be missing from his customary position as head of History 142's second half. Mr. Beale, a highly-touted import from the University of London, will lead the tour of the Crystal Palace in History of England from 1688 to the Present at Sever 11. Ruben Brower will bring his critical technique to English 162, Readings in English Literature Since 1890, at Boylston...
...Latin America, as in the Near East and South Asia, the Soviet Union last year stepped up its efforts at economic, diplomatic and cultural penetration. To counter the Reds, the U.S. Government has fattened the Information Service budget for Latin America and broadened the lending program of the Export-Import Bank. But the most important barrier to Red penetration is the Latin Americans' own common-sense awareness of Communist aims and methods. From a Communist viewpoint, last week's reaction to Moscow's "mutual advantage" line was hardly encouraging...
...Hastings' practice to import the winter's supply of butter from Ireland in the fall, this to avoid high prices in New England when forage was scarce and the cows dried up. The students, forced to partake of this and other fruits of the steward's economy, persevered throughout the winter, but when spring came with its ample forage they grew restive...
...deny that Moroccans committed more rape than any other troops, but they are sole possessors of the statistics, and do not release them. Protested much-respected French Colonel Pierre Charton: "The Moroccan soldier is exceptionally well disciplined . . . But you must always keep a certain distance." The French offered to import enough Moroccan camp followers to keep the Moroccans happy on the base, but this Gallic solution did not satisfy the Germans. County Administrative Officer Robert Lienhart led the outcry: "What kind of sovereignty is this when we have nothing to say, indeed are not even consulted, about foreign troops stationed...