Word: nationalizes
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...nation's oldest incorporated independent school, Andover goes from ninth through twelfth grade. Its 683 boys and 405 girls come from 45 states and 14 foreign countries. About 6% of the students are black or Hispanic; there are also students like the coal miner's daughter who was unable to sleep in her dormitory bed because she was used to sleeping on the floor (the school lent her a sleeping...
Swarthmore College Margaret Kuhn, L.H.D., Gray Panthers leader. For making it possible in a still young nation to celebrate...
...United Church of Christ (1,801,000 members). Under local option, the heirs of the Puritans chose to ordain the nation's first openly homosexual clergyman, William Johnson, in 1972. The church has set no national policy on ordination, but an agency is conducting a long-range study. United Church People for Biblical Witness, organized in April, is at work against a new denominational study guide that takes a tolerant view of homosexual behavior. f United Methodist Church (9,861,000 members). A church agency proposed that the 1976 General Conference repeal a four-year-old policy statement that...
...down lobsters on Nantucket, shooting white water on the Colorado River, besieging Bloomingdale's. Foreign tourists love a bargain as much as anybody else, and thanks to the decline of the dollar, the U.S. rather suddenly has become the world's major travel bargain. In consequence, the nation is finally getting a nice slice of international tourism, which is one of the biggest and fastest growing (up 18% last year, to $60 billion) items of global trade...
...attracting mostly first-time visitors from overseas, but if the nation wants to lure them back for second or third trips, it must improve and expand services. Only a few major cities have well-staffed visitor services that can help non-English-speaking tourists find their way about or locate a doctor on short notice. In hotels, restaurants and stores, it often seems that any language is spoken -just so it is English. Any money will be changed-so long as it is the U.S. dollar...