Sir Winston Churchill has given his consent to the naming of a group of buildings at the projected new campus of the Israel Institute of Technology after him, the British Committee for Technical Development in Israel and the Technion Society of Great Britain announced here today. The buildings, to be devoted to studies for the promotion of human welfare and peaceful purposes of higher research, will be named in commemoration of Sir Winston’s 80th birthday on November 30.
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