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General of the Army Dwight D. Eisenhower last week was in Texas for a "social" visit. Before it was over, he had dined in high privacy with San Antonio's wealthiest, had taken to the microphone before some 17,000 Texans in Houston and Galveston, had blasted again & again at the philosophy and practice of the welfare state. To reporters he unblinkingly declaimed: "I don't want a thing to do with politics-but that does not mean that I won't comment on political issues...
...village is in wretched straits, practically isolated from the outer world save for Red Cross trucks bringing in emergency food. It hopes and prays that large numbers of pilgrims might visit it between Christmas and Easter. For the faithful, it would still be a troubled journey to a troubled shrine...
...dedicated buildings, inaugurated cattle shows, addressed miners' rallies. Wherever he went he told his audiences that the atmosphere in Santiago was enough to choke him, that he had fled to the provinces to collect support against the vile politicos plotting his overthrow. Flying to Copiapo to visit a copper smelter, he said: "I must be a gypsy traveling from town to town! They are plotting against me." At a banquet of Talca farmers he cried: "I haven't come in a peaceful mood but in one of war. I will kill or be killed...
President Shigern Nambara of Tokyo University will arrive in Cambridge today for a two-day visit, Edwin O. Reischaner, professor of Far Eastern Languages, announced yesterday afternoon...
This summer's tours are of three main types: Study tours will travel in groups of between 25 and 70 and will visit European countries to study their social conditions and culture. Workcamps and workcamp tours will be in operation for those who wish to lessen the expenses of going abroad. Summer study seminars are also organized to permit students to study in schools on the continent...