Word: alma
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...high Dominican society, one of the most enduring institutions has been the 22-year engagement of Hector Trujillo, 51, and Alma McLaughlin, 38. Both come from top families: he is the youngest brother of Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo and nominal President of the country; she is the daughter of onetime U.S. Marine Sergeant Charles McLaughlin, who stayed on after the 1916-24 occupation to become a colonel in Trujillo's army and president of the Dominican Airline. Last week, before 1,600 guests in white ties and formal gowns, in a wedding party that included the dictator as best...
...reversed himself on the marriage with a curt newspaper announcement just a week before the wedding. For society, the marriage creates a unique problem. Confusingly but officially, the Dominican Republic already has two First Ladies, old Dona Julia and the dictator's wife Maria. Now plump and pretty Alma McLaughlin becomes the third...
...Scratch. In Alma, Ga., while eloquently orating at a Veterans Day celebration, Lieut. Governor Garland T. Byrd discovered that he was standing in the middle of an ant hill, and that thousands of ants were crawling up his trousers...
...five years, a student need never leave the premises. He gets a private room at low rental; no Moscow hotel serves better food than his cut-rate cafeteria. He can warm his mind in the 1,200,000-book library, cool off in the massive swimming pool. His labyrinthine alma mater is a self-contained city, with 133 elevators and miles of columned marble corridors; its 45,000 rooms include 168 lecture halls and 1,700 first-rate laboratories. Geography students alone have 20 labs, featuring such (militarily) educational gadgets as special projectors for aerial photographs...
They may never see their alma mater, and her football games come out of the radio. But last week more than 13,000 University of Maryland undergraduates began a new semester as eagerly as if they were back in College Park. Their campus is global, stretching from frigid Thule in Greenland to burning Dhahran on the Persian Gulf. Stationed at U.S. bases around the world, the students are members of Maryland's booming Overseas Program for American servicemen. Just ten years old, the program may be having as much impact on U.S. education as the invention of the junior...