Word: staying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Detention. In Newbury, Vt., when a school janitor was indicted for first-degree murder, the school board decided to let him stay on the job, but only after school hours...
Bonsai, since March 1957 Ambassador to Bolivia, has had to deal before with a thorny Latin American situation. In 1955, as Ambassador to Colombia, he was accredited to the government of Dictator Gustavo Rojas Pinilla. Distinctly not one of the diplomat types who deem it a simple duty to stay close to the boss, Spanish-fluent Philip Bonsai moved with ease among intellectuals and politicos in Colombia. Among them was Alberto Lleras Camargo, a leading Rojas oppositionist. Rojas put pressure on the State Department and the U.S. eventually withdrew Bonsai, but the urbane diplomat became a hero among Latin Americans...
...days in Los Angeles he rated five to six columns daily from each of the four papers. When Detroit played Mikoyan's host, the News ran four front-page stories the same day, also turned over most of an inside page to detailed coverage of his stay. At week's end, the New York Times had yet to break the Mikoyan lease on Page...
...Dwellers in the academic world must beware of "chauvinism of the academy." A good cure, Riesman suggests, is a sabbatical tour of duty in business or Government. For all that, there are rewards for men and women obstinately bent on becoming professors: "In my own observation academic people stay alive longer than most professional people-alive in terms of openness of mind and not merely of drive and energy...
...were low. "She always gave you the impression that she had to be very careful with money," says a friend. It is Smith's good fortune that Alumna Clarke was careful-and that at Smith something happened to the quiet, 20-year-old college girl, memorable enough to stay bright for seven decades...