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...takeover process in 1912 that newspapers worried chiefly about the fate of a gift cow, named Pauline, that William Howard Taft had grazing on the White House lawn (Taft sent it back to the donor). President-elect Wilson whisked off on Nov. 9 to Bermuda, where a cable breakdown left him out of touch with the world for five days-to his delight-and about all Wilson asked of Taft was a "candid opinion" of the White House housekeeper...
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Within one short week after Belgium turned the Congo over to Patrice Lumumba last June 30, all but 100 of 1,200 Belgian doctors hastily packed their bags and fled-some of them alarmed by the breakdown of order, the stories of white nuns raped, the feeling that in many places a Belgian was no longer safe. Their departure left all but six of the fledgling nation's 400 hospitals manned only by nurses and semi-trained "medical assist ants." There were no Congolese doctors to fill the gap: the first Congolese admitted to medical school in more than...
...information on births, deaths and disease has been reaching the central government at Léopoldville. As beleaguered U.N. medics struggled to undo the damage wrought by the Belgians' abrupt departure, the job still looked almost hopeless. Said one U.N. doctor: "It is inconceivable that such a breakdown in health services should occur in the 20th century. The Congo is just a few months short of returning to a medieval health pattern...
...Radcliffe 457 64 201 23 56 Business School 242 24 681 68 82* Law School 571 66 264 30 34 Other Grad Schools 268 75 80 22 11 Total Graduate 1051 48 1025 47 127 Total University 3461 56 2412 39 209 HARVARD-RADCLIFFE BREAKDOWN BY CLASSES Kennedy Nixon Undecided...