Word: groups
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...group of College students will help set up a revised American History program for juniors at Newton High School who do not plan to attend college. The group, composed of Honors candidates in History and Government, met last night to discuss plans with Wayne Altree, chairman of the social studies department at Newton High, and Edward Martin, a history teacher there...
...took him some 150 miles through sunny Southern California. His destination on the most crucial day of his career: Tijuana, Mexico, where he lunched (enchiladas, tacos and German beer) with Tijuana's mayor, Xicotencatl Leyva Aleman. Nixon stopped by the roadside to play touch football briefly with a group of marines from El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, took time off on the way back to show an aide the San Juan Capistrano Mission, gulp down a pineapple milk shake at a roadside stand...
...event was billed at Winthrop under the somewhat misleading title of "Doc Wells and Seven Swinging Surgeons." Actually, as noted, the group consisted of three doctors, a dentist, and five businessmen and professionals--all from Weston. They play mostly for themselves ("Our wives don't lot us away too much"), but appear in public on select occasions ("There has to be a little booze"). Since Condon's moved to the East Side and went respectable--they don't serve you under eighteen any more--this was your reviewer's first encounter with hot jazz. And it was refreshing...
...Wells, whom all Harvard and Radcliffe hypochondriacs know from their trips to the University Health Service, was the nominal leader of the group; it was his affiliation with Winthrop House that started the whole thing. (He'll deny it, but there was actually a stethoscope dangling from his pocket for half the evening.) He filled us in on some of the details of amateur jazz on the East Coast, and then proceeded to introduce the group. Apparently it started just for fun in 1953, and it's been strictly Dixieland for four years or so. It was the combo...
...army will remain loyal to de Gaulle so long as he guarantees that they will not be removed from Algeria; providing he does not negotiate officially with the rebel Algerian National Liberation Front, and does not recruit officials for the new Algerian government from members of the rebel group...