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...undergraduates. They are: Ford T. Johnson, Jr. 1L, Harry E. Miller 3L, Fredric R. Branfman 1GSE, Karen E. Fields '66, Elise Forbes '65, Jennifer Leaning '67, Mary R. Yarwood '65, Lee S. Hyde '65, Stephen A. Most '65, Christopher St. John '66, Alan H. Venable '66, and David A. Wendt...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Zambia to Get Volunteers From Project Tanganyika | 12/16/1964 | See Source »

...style you both owe at least a nod to the old English prayer book. The comment seems to have been inspired by the lines in the litany: "From Ghoulies, and Ghosties, and three-legged beasties, and things that go boomp in the night, Good Lord, deliver us." ALLAN W. WENDT Columbia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Nov. 6, 1964 | 11/6/1964 | See Source »

...Kennedy's former Latin American adviser; George H. Earle III, Governor of Pennsylvania; Lincoln MacVeagh; Ambassador to Spain, Portugal, and Greece; and General Daniel Needham, a Boston civic leader. But in another went the scientists and humanists; Dr. Howard Root, the nation's leading authority on diabetes, Gerald L. Wendt, a noted science journalist, and Dows Dunham, curator emeritus of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts...

Author: By David M. Gordon, | Title: Class of '13: Facing Change | 6/11/1963 | See Source »

...study of people-their origins and swarmings, contacts and convolutions-is a wide net for strange fact and curious legend, educated guess and wild surmise. Author Wendt casts his ethnological net wide without bothering about deep analysis, and the resulting book is better for dipping than dredging...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Swarmings of Peoples | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

Stringing these and other speculations on a roughly chronological chain, Author Wendt ranges the world in space and time. He examines the theories of the Diffusionists (who believe that all civilizations derive from a single mother culture, whose ruins have been found in Iraq. Crete, India and Egypt), but he favors the Convergents (who think that the countless cultural similarities in the development of widely separated peoples, such as South America's Incas and Asia's Cambodians, were caused not by physical contact but by the psychological similarity of all men everywhere). He denigrates racial purists' illusions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Swarmings of Peoples | 2/2/1962 | See Source »

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