Word: outdoors
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Under the far-flung U.S. technical assistance (Point Four) program, the International Cooperation Administration will build 10,000 badly needed structures in Jordan: a central government laboratory, a tuberculosis hospital, a maternity hospital, a nursing school and 9,996 outdoor privies...
...Albert Schweitzer Hospital opened its doors and went to work. It has 50 beds, three air-conditioned operating rooms and an "emergency entrance" designed with an eye to the fact that the only ambulance available to most of the region's poor is the Haitian burro. Water and outdoor cooking facilities are provided for outpatients coming down from the hills. Present staff consists of four doctors and a lab technician in addition to the Mellons, and all have been studying Creole in preparation for their patients. Patients are expected to pay only what they can−token payments...
...Outdoor Mass. Manhattan's San Juan fiesta was held on the campus of Fordham University. In charge was handsome, energetic Msgr. Joseph F. Connolly. Working with him was young (29) Father Ivan Illich, Austrian-born Roman-trained linguist whose work among Manhattan Puerto Ricans was recently recognized by Francis Cardinal Spellman, who asked him to serve as vice rector of the Catholic University in San Juan. (The Cardinal also had 22 of the Diocese's newly ordained priests study Spanish at Georgetown University, sent eight New York priests to serve temporarily in Puerto Rico.) Cardinal Spellman, New York...
...addition that will sell only nonfood items. With one shopping cart the housewife can move from hardware to florist, from drugs to dry goods. In addition to women's and children's inexpensive clothing, the Keansburg store will offer cameras, costume jewelry, fishing rods, toasters, even outdoor lawn furniture. Five years from now, says Shield, every new supermarket will be a small department store; round-the-clock vending machines will sell such necessities as bread, butter and eggs; merchandise will move out of automated warehouses in 40-case lots. Says he: "You can't have a highly...
...Pushing his shotput record still farther out of reach, Air Force Lieut. Parry O'Brien tossed the 16-lb. iron ball 61 ft. 1 in. during an exhibition at an A.A.U. track meet at Salt Lake City, to break his own world outdoor mark...