Word: sydney
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Unlike the U.S., Australia now raises no objection to travel behind the Iron Curtain. Last week a Douglas Skymaster arrived in Hong Kong from Sydney with 26 Australians aboard. In Hong Kong they went their separate ways. Five, left-wing trade union delegates, went on into Red China for the May Day celebrations in Peking. The other 21, soldiers and airmen, flew on to Korea to fight the Chinese Communists...
...prize collection of manuscripts, including the treasured Biglow papers, is now lodged in Houghton Libary. The documents comprise the papers of Sydney Howard Gay 1833, historian and antislavery editor...
Included in the list of speakers are Pierre Emmanuel, famed French poet; Sydney Hook, professor of Philosophy at New York University; Albert Marre, director of the Battle Theatre; and Dr. Tara Chand, Indian Ambassador to Iran. Two well-known authors, Michael O'Donovan (Frank O'Connor) and Gilbert Seldes, will also be among the eight other speakers. Elliott, Carl J. Friedrich, professor of Government, and George La Piana. John H. Morison Professor of Church History, will be the Harvard participants...
...obscure American businessmen (the State Department had discouraged attendance) were allowed to declare themselves in favor of private capitalism. A British delegation, respectably headed by Lord Boyd-Orr, listened with interest as one of its members, Left-Wing M.P. Samuel Sydney Silverman, announced that there were enough business orders from Russia and Red China to wipe out the Lancashire textile slump. Then Mikhail V. Nesterov, head of Russia's Chamber of Commerce, oozing cooperation and coexistence, offered to double or triple Russia's imports. He offered to buy British textiles, spices and herring, French electrical equipment and ships...
Modern man worries so much about his ability to measure up to the challenges of his environment that he often, literally, worries himself sick. So believes Sir Charles Bickerton Blackburn, chancellor of Sydney University and grand old (78) man of Australian medicine, who sees patients when other doctors have not been able to decide what ails them. Most alarming, Physician Blackburn feels, is the fact that for the first time in history, man may have reached the point where he admits defeat in the face of great odds...