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Desert Trek. The sun killed many, too-although hundreds of them made incredible week-long treks across the barren Mojave Desert, carrying nothing to drink but a gallon jug of water, hiding under cactus by day and walking by night. Harassed immigration officials rounded them up in knots along the roads, in wholesale lots on farms, loaded them into yellow buses and took them back to Mexico. Last year 230,000 were caught in California alone. Most of them hustled back, were often caught again at the same job in the same field on the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IMMIGRATION: The Wetbacks | 4/9/1951 | See Source »

These suggestions, if adopted, would be the latest in a series of College moves to bring religion more heavily into the life of the undergraduate. For two successive years there have been week-long series of lectures on the Christian religion with supporting meetings in the Houses. This month Nels F. S. Ferre of Vanderbilt University conducted the program, and Reinhold Niebuhr may give the talks next year...

Author: By Frank B. Gilbert, | Title: College Weighs Adding Chaplain and Preacher | 3/21/1951 | See Source »

Barcelona's Governor Eduardo Baeza Alegria laid the blame for the riots on "Communist agitators." That might well be true, although Barceloneses could understand their grievances without help from the Communists. The current battle of Barcelona followed a remarkable, week-long rebellion over a simple, nonpolitical issue: the price of a trolley ride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SPAIN: The Spirit of Barcelona | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

Robert L. Fischelis 1G, Graduate Secretary of Phillips Brooks House, left by plane for Berlin early this week to attend a week-long conference of the international committee of which he is general secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fischelis Visits Berlin For Conference About Seminars in Germany | 3/7/1951 | See Source »

...tree, a noon sign, and the customary pretty-girl posters highlighted the first day of a week-long campaign for the '54 Jubilee Committee elections...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yardlings Open Jubilee Campaign | 2/27/1951 | See Source »

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