Word: summer
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half the hemisphere it was summer, the hottest in years. Millions of latinos, turning away from rumors of political plots and the facts of economic crises, splurged on record-breaking holidays. The rich, kept from Manhattan and Europe by foreign-exchange restrictions, went to the home resorts. The new industrial classes, their pockets packed with inflated currencies, plunged into the pleasures of unaccustomed leisure. In such seaside capitals as Rio and Montevideo, even the underprivileged poor had a chance to play on world-famous beaches...
Project plans drawn up at yesterday's NSA meeting include the tri-nations tours which the Radcliffe NSA chapter will conduct this summer, a human relations conference at BU March 12 and 13, and an Inter-School Culture Weekend, also...
...officers, and workers. In one instance, Dwyer questioned a released inmate who was so drunk and drugged when he talked to her that later she couldn't remember what she had said. Dwyer's report was handed to McDowell, who passed it on to Governor Bradford early in the summer...
Both University and Radcliffe students interested in going to Europe or South America this summer can get information about the "Experiment in International Living" at Phillips Brooks House, 8 p.m. tomorrow...
...Europe last summer, General Manager Edward Johnson* thought he had found the right singer: magenta-mopped Bulgarian Soprano Ljuba Welitsch, of the Vienna State Opera. Last spring, when pudgy little Fritz Reiner left the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra in a huff, Johnson knew he could get the right conductor, too. Even 84-year-old Composer Strauss agreed with that. From Montreux, Switzerland, he wrote to Reiner, who had first conducted Salome under his stern gaze in Dresden 33 years ago: "That is good news. There are plenty of others who can do Brahms and Bruckner. Opera needs men like...