Word: specializations
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Port Moresby native quarter, Hubbard came across the village council clerk, Rima Gavera, sitting at a battered desk, engrossed in his reading. The reading matter: TIME. Clerk Gavera, a native Papuan, explained that he is a faithful reader of TIME (as are 1,000 other New Guineans), with a special interest. "I like stories about satellites," he said, "and TIME has the best ones." The other New Guinea tale from Correspondent Hubbard is reported in PRESS, Roll-Your-Own Newspaper...
...Dear Herr Erhard." Erhard had the sympathy of a growing number of Christian Democratic Party politicos, who were muttering openly against der Alte's highhanded rule. The national deputy chairman of the party, Kai-Uwe von Hassel. Minister-President of Schleswig Holstein, demanded that Adenauer call a special meeting of the party's highest committee, indicating that he would throw his support behind Erhard in a showdown...
...parliamentary caucus: "The intention to offend you or degrade your reputation was absolutely remote to me . . . You can be sure of my full confidence in you as a politician and as a man ... I gratefully recognize the great merits of your political activities in general, and particularly in your special [economic] fields...
...Kassem moved against the Popular Resistance Force, the Communist-backed civilian militia that helped the army and police quell the March revolt, then stayed on as "bridge guards" and "night security patrols" long after they were needed. The nation is now secure, said Kassem, and no longer needs such special forces. Kassem did all this in his usual indirect fashion, without specifically denouncing the Communists. He obviously wanted no unscheduled fireworks to go off with a bang before his own July 14 festivities...
Mackinac, Mich. (Special)--David McCord, Norman Hall, editor of the Alumni Bulletin, Daniel S. Cheever, Director of Alumni Affairs, and Florence Kimball, Alumni Recorder, are at historic Mackinac Island, participating in the American Alumni Council's 44th General Conference, June 28 to July...