Word: interational
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carpenter former press secretary to Lady Bird Johnson and a founding member of the NWPC beamed down at the caucus wine-drinkers from the inter steps of Boston City Hall. "Welcome to the Boston lea Party. Women know what it is like to have taxation without representation...
...with alumni and it is such maneuvering that Peterson has done in his current office. When Peterson moved into Mass Hall in the spring of 1972 from his position as director of admissions. Peterson and President Bok outlined three areas of concern in alumni affairs: continuing education for alumni, "inter-generational" contacts, and stepped-up communications to involve alumni with developments in Cambridge...
Americans traveling abroad, especially in Europe, are running into nightmarishly high prices. Part of the reason is European inflation. But, relatively, prices for Americans spending weakened U.S. currency are even higher. A single room at such hotels as Amsterdam's Hilton and Cologne's Inter-Continental now cost at least $50 a night, v. as low as $35 18 months ago. A modest dinner for two in Switzerland-cheese fondue and a bottle of wine-can run to $30. In Paris, peaches from Southern France sell for the equivalent of $8 each, and a cup of coffee rarely...
...inter-country adoption process is elaborate. Richard Darby, adoption director of International Adoptions Inc.--a program set up by My Friends House, a Newton organization which ran a nutrition center in Saigon--says that most prospective parents have considered adoption for at least one or two years before applying. Either before or after the prospective parents submit their application, a licensed state or religious organization studies their home, usually for two months, to determine their motives and their ability to rear a child from another culture. After the home-study, it may take a year or longer before the parents...
...society sponsor regular evening sessions to discuss problems and adjustments arising from adoption, as well as such activities as overnight camping trips, picnics, programs on Indian lore and other cultures, and combined Tet and Martin Luther King Day celebrations. Other organizations conduct home-studies and act as bridges to inter-country adoption agencies in other states. For example, International Adoptions concentrates on the "hard-to-place" child--children who are handicapped or of mixed blood or older than the infants usually sought by adoptive parents. It has placed 17 children in Massachusetts over the last year...