Word: visitations
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...better friend in Latin America than squat, affable Dr. Eduardo Zuleta Angel, chairman of the U.N. Preparatory Commission and Colombian ex-Cabinet Minister. But last week, back in Bogotá after a Washington visit, Dr. Zuleta Angel thought it time to speak sharply of what he had heard...
Virginia-born Lady Astor, back in the U.S. for her third visit in two years, would winter in Arizona-and, of course, lecture a little. Her opening statement: "We've got to get Germany back on her feet. It's not only the decent thing to do, but it's a matter of self-preservation...
...years that Ohio's little Baldwin-Wallace College has been going. Though run by Methodists, it welcomed students of all faiths: its chapel was compulsory but nonsectarian, and one of every ten of its students was a Roman Catholic. One day recently a Catholic coed paid a visit to neighboring St. John's College. She was worried. Was it proper, she asked a Catholic professor, for her to take the compulsory philosophy of religion course at Baldwin-Wallace...
Back in 1926, on leave from his research and teaching job at the University of Chicago, Dr. Sudan went on a fishing trip to the village of Kremmling (pop. 567). Hearing that a doctor was in town, a villager asked him to visit four children with tonsilitis. Dr. Sudan stayed there until a little more than a year ago, as the only doctor to 4,000 people in an 80-mile radius. Then, ailing himself, he moved to Denver...
...away as China and Cuba. When a freshman arrives, she is gently introduced to the Sargent way of life, and to Cambridge, which, an official handbook informs her, is "in the midst of New England's beauty, charm and intrigue." "If history interests you," the handbook continues, "visit Harvard Yard." Once acclimated, Sargent freshmen begin a four-year program which consists mostly of training in physical education and therapy, with a scattering of fundamental academic courses...