Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Conant became an honorary Freeman of the Metropolitan (London) Borough of Southwark during his visit to England...
During the second week students may join one of two groups. The first will concentrate on the art, architecture and culture of the country and will visit museums and other cultural centers. The second group will concern itself more with study of the social, political, and economic life of the country, and will visit factories, newspapers and universities and attend sessions of local and national legislatures...
Professor John Finch of Dartmouth, executive director of the Seminar, will leave for Europe this week to supervise the choice of students for the six week project. This Saturday, Student Council and Seminar representatives will visit Briarcliff Junior College to publicize the Seminar at a "Student's World's Fair...
During his recent visit to Tokyo, Secretary of the Army Kenneth Royall asked some of the newspaper boys to drop by at the U.S. embassy for a drink. Twelve U.S. newsmen came. Burly, bumbling Royall talked, on & off, for an hour. He left the reporters free to use his remarks if they did not attribute them to him. What he had said during that cocktail hour set off a cyclone of alarm and confusion...
...When the government car rounded a bend in the road, he called the traditional chant of welcome and challenge. A tall, bronzed man stepped from the car and picked up the ax that the sentry tossed toward him. At this gesture (the time-honored sign to show that a visit is peaceful) hundreds of Maoris in native costume sang their ancient haka, song of welcome...