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...three-week course that turns an infantryman into an airborne soldier is so rigorous and full of hazards (notably parachute jumps) that it seems certain to make a lot of the trainees mighty anxious...
Passing through Rome on a business safari to Africa, Democrat Adlai Stevenson taxied up to Premier Mario Scelba's villa to lunch with U.S. Ambassador Clare Boothe Luce and the Italian Premier, then flew for a three-week trip through Kenya, the Sudan, Uganda and Southern Rhodesia...
...suggested that a special school be set up for the study of continental unification. A Flemish Franciscan, Anton K. Verleye, seconded the motion, moved that the school be located in Bruges ("There is a European spirit in the very stones of this city"). In 1949 an experimental, three-week course began; in 1950 its founders decided to expand the school, picked Dutchman Hendrik Brugmans, professor of French literature at the State University at Utrecht, to be its head. Last week, having just received the first fruits of his recent U.S. tour in the form of a $10,000 donation from...
...life into the mummified remains of classical ballet (which it performed with loving care) and pioneered an electric, freshly dramatic modern style. Last week, to wind up its15th anniversary celebration, Ballet Theater gathered its stars and most famous graduates, moved into Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House for a three-week run before touring New England, Mexico and South America. Along with some traditional specimens (Giselle, Swan Lake), the repertory included such milestones in U.S. ballet evolution as Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend (the Lizzie Borden case), Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free (three sailors on shore leave...
...French seaside region of Brittany, a three-week smallpox epidemic slowed to a halt after catching 68, killing 14. Among the dead: two infants, a local health official. During the scare, more than 150,000 Bretons were vaccinated, along with all travelers and tourists. Cited as the bearer of the smallpox virus: a French army noncom just back from Indo-China...