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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...walled villages, the crisis is worse. When one of the Catholic priests visits he is immediately surrounded by haggard faces begging for medicine, food, anything. At the Seventh-day Adventist Hospital in Okpala, a sign at the gate reads "No Vacancy." At Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Umuahia, the largest in the region, doctors one day recently counted 1,800 patients suffering from kwashiorkor: during the whole of 1963, the same hospital treated 18 such cases. At the military hospital in the same city, Major David Ofomata, chief medical adviser, tells visitors that everything from antibiotics to catgut is needed...
...were rushed to his Wall Street dealer, Loeb, Rhoades & Co., within 1½hours of the deadline. Altogether, 1,650,000 shares were counted, some 350,000 short of what Hughes bid for. Still, they represented 28% of ABC common, and would have made Howard Hughes ABC's largest stockholder...
There more than 40,000 McCarthyites jammed into the 34,000 seats breaking all records and the fire laws. A McCarthy staff member disclosed that they had oversold for the rally by 5000. Another 10,000 supporters supposedly were turned away outside. It was the largest gathering in McCarthy's eight month campaign...
Harvard University is now the nation's sixth largest college contributor of Peace Corps Volunteers, according to a Peace Corps official...
...Peace Corps is still the largest single employer of college graduates except for the military. Over 2.3 per cent of 1968's 666,000 graduating college seniors (15,600) applied for Peace Corps service...