Word: seale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even Rotary's critics and satirists have mellowed in the face of the club's accomplishments. Rotary contributes millions of dollars each year to charity, is the major supporter of the annual Easter Seal drive, and in the last eleven years has given scholarships to more than 1,200 students from 67 countries. A neighborhood club at heart. Rotary would like, as Harold Thomas puts it, to "make the whole world a neighborhood, and bring it even more bridges to friendship." It set up the cultural exchange group that later became UNESCO, settled a 150-year-old boundary...
...Changed by executive order the presidential seal of a growing nation by enlarging the ring of stars to 49 on July 4 (for Alaska), to 50 in July 1960 (for Hawaii...
...widely known as a good man, but he feared that he might be unworthy of the faith his disciples placed in him. When, on Formosa, he felt death approaching, he called them together and gave them unusual instructions. "When I die," he said, "do not bury my body, but seal it in an urn. After three years, open the urn, and if my body has decayed, bury it in the ground. But if it has not, encase it in gold and place it in a pagoda...
...Tibetan Buddhism: the Buddha, the Doctrine and the Community. Power lay with the contending monks and noblemen. The Red Hat sect, which allows its lamas to marry, was gradually overborne by the celibate Yellow Hat sect. This was made official in 1557 when a Mongol khan gave the seal of rulership to the leading Yellow Hat monk and named him Dalai (Ocean of Wisdom) Lama. The fifth Dalai Lama is famous for building the vast Potala. He also felt the need to honor his favorite teacher by naming him the Panchen (Teacher) Lama, and put in his keeping Tibet...
...race, breaking his own closed-course record, which he set by winning the Monza, Italy 500-mile race last year. The speed of the race brought death to Wisconsin's George Amick, 34, No. 2 in last year's Indianapolis race. On the last lap, his Bowes Seal Fast Special went out of control, hit the outer guardrail, killed Amick instantly...