Word: nathaneal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lebanese university founded by an American Presbyterian minister. Last week, on a hilltop overlooking the Mediterranean, the American University of Beirut began its centennial year by inaugurating Samuel Kirkwood, a former Harvard medical professor and public health commissioner of Massachusetts, as its new president. Later, Harvard's President Nathan Pusey and President Emeritus James Conant will join the year-long celebration as A.U.B. moves ahead on what Kirkwood sees as its main mission: "To provide a Western education without alienating the student from his Middle Eastern environment...
...felt another kind of pressure. Flushed with victory over a lightly armed South Vietnamese company of C.l.D.G. (Civilian Irregular Defense Group), more than a regiment of Red troops positioned itself around a bloodied battalion of U.S. 101st Airborne troopers probing the district of Tuy Hoa as part of Operation Nathan Hale. Communist Company Commander 1st Lieut. Lu Due Thung, 35, was sent out after dusk to "find and fix the weak American force," as he later told his captors, then report back so that the Reds could launch a massive attack on the 101st the next night...
Within five hours the battle was over, Lieut. Thung was a cowed and loquacious prisoner, and the ground was littered with the bodies of North Vietnamese dead. That brought to nearly 400 the number of enemy destroyed in Nathan Hale's continuing sweep of the coastal highland area, which has long been the sanctuary of the Viet Cong but is now an increasingly perilous area for an estimated 2,500 North Vietnamese troops...
Whether he wants a canvas or a corporation, esthetic Nathan Cummings is happiest "doing a deal." At the moment, the 69-year-old chairman of Chicago's Consolidated Foods Corp. ought to be exuberant. His art collection, mostly impressionist and postimpressionist, embraces "100 very, very good paintings and 500 fun ones," and his display of pre-Columbian artifacts at Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum is one of the world's finest. Corporately, Consolidated Foods last week agreed to acquire, for $3,400,000 in stock, Idaho Frozen Foods, Inc., a $5,000,000-a-year processor of frozen...
Married. James Pusey, 26, second son of Harvard's President Nathan M. Pusey, currently teaching Chinese at Harvard; and Anne Chi-fang Wang, 20, mainland China-born daughter of a historian at Singapore's Nanyang University; in Cambridge, Mass...