Word: alma
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Soviet Union boasts some of the tightest border controls in the world, but they are not tight enough to hold back a thriving network of Russian dealers in contraband currency that stretches from Peking to Paris and points beyond. Last week a Kazakhstan factory owner went on trial in Alma Ata after he was nabbed wearing a money belt crammed not only with rubles but also with French francs and U.S. dollars. In his home were three ounces of pearls, 2,700 antelope horns, which the Chinese prize for their supposed medicinal qualities, and 22 Ibs. of gold, which...
During his college days, Mosbacher sailed at Dartmouth and won the New England championship for his alma mater. The trophy will be officially named either the Dartmouth Bowl or the Ivy League Trophy, but will undoubtedly be known as the Mosbacher trophy...
...ALMA G. WILLIS...
Shape or Ship. The son of a Detroit postal clerk, Litchfield has had experience teaching public administration at his alma mater, the University of Michigan, serving in a top slot under General Lucius Clay in postwar Germany, and as dean of Cornell's Graduate School of Business and Public Administration. He came to Pitt with a controversial theory that the same rules of management apply to any organization-armies, banks or universities...
Once they have attained wealth or fame, most alumni like to do something nice for their alma mater. Not so Burma's military strongman, General Ne Win, an alumnus of Rangoon University, who last week handed his old school a painful surprise. On his orders, an army demolition team marched on campus and blew up the two-story Student Union building, whose brick walls have echoed for 34 years with the student arguments of such leaders as Aung San, father of Burma's independence, ex-Premier U Nu, now under house arrest, and capable U Thant, Acting Secretary...