Word: assignations
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Melandy, was a supporter of vice-President Nixon; he envisioned the "Peace Corps" as a non-governmental agency, a "citizens' committee." Seeking financial support from foundations, corporations and the government, this citizens' committee would compile a roster of overseas positions, recruit young men, run a three-month orientation course, assign participants to positions according to aptitudes, and maintain contact with them. As a "people-to-people" program, this private corps would, Melady argued, have "far more impact than a government operation, which, regardless of its good work, would be labeled as an instrument of American foreign policy...
Junior non-Honors, however, meets a groups of up to six people. Should the individual interests or needs within given group vary, students can switch tutors; and the Department will assign students expressing preferences for a given author to a tutor doing work in that period...
...Force's inability to make best use of short term officers not only creates difficulties for the Air Force, Sharp noted, but also frequently keeps men from interesting jobs while in the service. For example, the Air Force will not assign ROTC graduates to training in missile operations and maintenance under the present three year plan...
...first decisions as president was to assign 20 engineers to work on automating the canning industry, traditionally resistant to technological advance because of the necessity of hand-sorting of foodstuffs. Campbell's engineers devised an electronic sorter for rice grain, another for vegetables. To preserve the reputation for quality of Campbell products year in and year out, Murphy's tasting boards check soups and other foods coming off the production line in Campbell's nine major U.S. plants every hour of the day. At 11 a.m. the manager and his executive assistants at each plant pause...
...Orval Faubus' Arkansas, still be clouded by the storms that Faubus stirred up in Little Rock three years ago, it is a big and scary decision for a school board to assign a Negro pupil to an all-white school. Last week, after a long spell of foot dragging, the Dollarway school board at the segregationist stronghold of Pine Bluff (pop. 40,000) got up its nerve, and in minimum compliance with a 1959 federal court order, hand-picked six-year-old Delores Jean York, daughter of a Negro mill hand, to enter the first grade...