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...University's most distant holding in the Western Hemisphere, the Atkins Institution of the Arnold Arboretum at Soledad, Cuba, was established in 1900 as the result of a gift from Edwin F. Atkins, owner of large estates in Cuba, who amassed a fortune as a sugar planter. Soledad, only Botanical Garden in tropical America not government supported, is under the direction of Dr. Arthur G. Kevorkin, who returns to Cambridge four months each Fall to give a course in tropical Botany. Extensive research is conducted in economic Botany, the year around Cuban climate being particularly adapted to such experiments since...
...University's researches in botanical development's in the tropics were spurred last week when the University announced the appointment of Dr. Arthur G. Kevorkian, expert on Latin American plants, as the director of the Atkins Garden and Research Laboratory at Soledad, Cuba. Dr. Kevorkian will teach at Harvard in alternate years and will return to the University at intervals for reports, study and lectures...
Charmer. Alemán knows how to win men and charm women. To President Avila Camacho's wholesome, good-hearted wife, Soledad, who shows him a motherly fondness, Alemán owes many a political debt. Señora de Avila Camacho once defined the official line toward Alemán by stating at dinner: "There will be no criticism of Miguelito in this house...
...proudest village in Mexico last week was tiny Soledad Etla (pop. 1,200) in Oaxaca State. President Manuel Avila Camacho had just given it a handsome new flag. In one year every one of Soledad Etla's 470 illiterates had learned to read & write...
...Soledad Etla was Mexico's first 100% literate village, but others were on the way. In Tecuexcomac, 300 villagers get up at 4 every morning to attend reading & writing classes. In El Palmito, like many of his classmates, nine-year-old Schoolboy José Rojas hurries off each day after school to teach the two Rs to a 54-year-old day laborer...