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Pushed, pummeled and applauded during his tour of the Camp Kilmer refugee depot last week, Vice President Nixon was asked by a newsman: "Doesn't the fanfare make it difficult for you to get at the facts?" Answered Nixon: "If the fanfare and publicity help at all to increase Americans' understanding of the refugees, then it's served a useful purpose...
Harvard University language experts will teach English to incoming Hungarians at Camp Kilmer, N.J. They have only two weeks to complete the course, but expect at least some of the group to finish...
...Jersey's Camp Kilmer, where a few hundred refugees still await help from eager welfare agencies, U.S. Army detachments prepared new shelter and service facilities for the big rush. In the hurly-burly of processing, the bureaucracy managed to remember that Dec. 6 was St. Nicholas Day. In many European countries, St. Nicholas leaves presents in the newly polished shoes of the good children, switches and pieces of coal for the naughty ones. For the 51 children still awaiting settlement at Kilmer, there were toys, dolls and candy. No such observance had been permitted Hungarian children since...
...another bone-chilling day at Camp Kilmer, N.J., a few atrociously accented words of Hungarian and an old school connection brought feelings of warmth and welcome to the shivering, confused and fearful refugees from Hungary. Researchers Eleanor Johnson and Deirdre Mead Ryan, who covered the arrival of the refugees at Camp Kilmer (see "The Huddled Masses" in NATIONAL AFFAIRS), found them still too bewildered to talk readily. On the way to the camp from the New Brunswick railroad station, Researcher Johnson learned that her taxi driver was a native Hungarian. He taught her a few Hungarian words and phrases...
...Walt Whitman and Camden bridge dispute [Feb. 6]: in dedicating the bridge to Walt Whitman, the officials concerned are honoring Whitman as a poet, not just Whitman the man. I am a Catholic and like Whitman, whatever his sexual leanings; he was a better poet than Joyce Kilmer any day. They can take Trees and throw it away and/or build their own bridge. They just don't understand Whitman or his poetry. As for the man, they might remember that during the Civil War he did as much as any man to visit, comfort and help the sick...