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...CIEE issues permits to work in France, the United Kingdon, Ireland, Wst Germany and New Zealand. It takes only two or three weeks and the only requirements are that applicants be full-time students and have studied French or German if they want to work in those countries...
...long been common to reward big contributors with ambassadorships, despite their lack of diplomatic experience. Large donors who made it under Nixon include Kingdon Gould Jr., who gave $22,000 and became ambassador to Luxembourg; Guilford Dudley Jr., $51,000, Denmark; John P. Humes, $43,000, Austria; Vincent De-Roulet, $44,500, Jamaica. A big giver under President Eisenhower, Maxwell H. Gluck, was embarrassed at confirmation hearings for his ambassadorship to Ceylon when he could not name that nation's Prime Minister...
...grandmother of 62, fashions her 38th book about Jessica Abbott, an inhibited schoolteacher who goes to the Virgin Islands in a search for adventure. There, she is hired as a tutor and companion for 14-year-old Leila Drew, promptly falls in love with the child's father, Kingdon, and earns the undying hatred of the mother, Catherine. Somebody has to die, and so Catherine gets clouted in the face with a sea shell and knocked down a treacherous embankment. After a lot of voodoo-dee-oo and slipping about in the tropical moonlight, Jessica comes through happily...
...done much better on the few occasions when he treats his subjects at length. His favorite sort of topic is covered by two major articles in the first volume, one on Einstein and the other (by far the longest piece in the set) on the nineteenth-century mathematician William Kingdon Clifford. Scientific American readers will recognize neither of these: the Clifford piece was the introduction to a 1946 edition of Clifford's The Common Sense of The Exact Sciences, and the excellent survey of Einstein's more important work came out as a separate article three years...
Born. To Edith Kingdon Gould Martin, 37, great-granddaughter of "Robber Baron" Jay Gould, sometime child poetess, harpist, actress (Agatha Christie's Hidden Horizon), World War II lieutenant (j.g.) in the WAVES, and Guy Martin, 47, lawyer: their first daughter, fourth child; in Washington, D.C. Name: Edith Maria Theodosia Burr. Weight...