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Last week, as nearly 9,000 Rotarians gathered in Seattle for the 45th annual convention of the world's largest service club, a back or two was certainly slapped. Total strangers called each other by their first names without let or hindrance. But the names were called in accents...
Last week no less a diplomat than Secretary of State John Foster Dulles traveled to Seattle to acknowledge Ro-tary's influence. "You are here," he said, "because you share ideals in common." Tall, short, thin, fat, balding or bearded, none of the Rotarians seemed to care a fig...
Pretty Much the Same. From all over the world came reports that Rotary was doing things. Often, what it did seemed so puny as to be almost insignificant in the vast sweep of world affairs. It had, for instance, brought 57 young students from 18 nations to study together in...
It had even done something, in its quiet way, about Joe McCarthy's overblown reputation overseas. Jim Watch-hurst, of Warrington, England, remarked: "When we in Warrington hear of Wisconsin, U.S.A., we do not think of the junior Senator but of Bob Linse, the Rotary-sponsored student at our...
What did all this prove? "I've found," answered Rotary's newly inducted President Herbert J. Taylor, an aluminum man from Chicago, "that Rotary Clubs the world over are pretty much the same, whether they are in Bangkok or Boise. Rotary provides something that is unique: a common...